Is our fellow colleague in jail for tweets?

When I took a quick look at the indictment prepared for the executives of daily Cumhuriyet and the Cumhuriyet Foundation, one of the strange aspects among many that drew my attention was the focus on the intense communication traffic between journalist Kadri Gürsel and the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). 
 
Among 19 defendants, Gürsel seems to be the person who has had the most communication with FETÖ members. It says in the indictment that Gürsel has "communication records" with 92 suspects who were users of ByLock, a smartphone application that came into prominence after July 15, 2016, and 21 people who are under investigation launched into FETÖ. In this case, Gürsel, accused of assisting FETÖ, has communicated a total of (92+21) 113 FETÖ suspects. The space covering these contacts of his is 11 pages in the 306-page indictment. 

If I had not personally known Gürsel, maybe I would have taken this claim seriously to a certain extent. I worked with him closely for almost five years for the daily Milliyet between 2005 and 2009; then our acquaintance continued.  

I can say that I know his world views very well; the perspective on life of this friend of mine, who I am proud to have known and to have worked with. He is a person with a categorically negative view toward the Gülen community. Also, as certain liberal and leftist journalists and writers have done, he did not flirt with the community in the past; he set up a thick wall between himself and them. 

Gürsel was able to convey a public message through main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Utku Çakırözler, who visited him in Silivri Prison last week. Gürsel totally rejected the claims and had a logical explanation on how the prosecutor had based these...