THE editor of a left-wing newspaper has been jailed for seven years by an Istanbul court after being convicted of terrorism charges relating to articles and social media posts critical of the Turkish state.

Asli Ceren Aslan, who edits Ozgur Gelecek, was sentenced for supposedly spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation after publishing reports of war crimes committed during Turkish military operations in the largely Kurdish south-eastern towns of Cizre and Nusaybin in 2015 and 2016.

The two cities were flattened in an offensive ostensibly targeting the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during an uprising against Turkish oppression.