In 2013, the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance had found Evrensel daily’s editor-in-chief Fatih Polat guilty of “disclosing the identity of a minor” and sentenced him to a fine of TL 10,000 for the news story, published in May 2012. The court had suspended the judgment. After Polat was convicted in another media trial, the Istanbul 2nd Criminal Court of First Instance decided to review that decision and reassess the specifics of the case in a retrial.
On September 6, 2018, Polat was given a 10 thousand Turkish Liras fine in the retrial of a previous case, where the charges stemmed from a news story published in the newspaper in 2012, when Polat was the newspaper’s responsible managing editor.