NEWS ANALYSIS: Berberoğlu arrest is forcing limits in Turkey

Enis Berberoğlu, a member of parliament for the social democratic Republican People's Party (CHP), was sentenced to 25 years in jail by an Istanbul court on June 14 and immediately put in prison. 

The court ruled that Berberoğlu had "knowingly helped a terror organization" by providing "state secrets" to the media. It is all about the news of how gendarmerie forces stopped Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) trucks on Jan. 19, 2014, as they were carrying military material to Syria. 

The arrest of the CHP deputy, who is also the former editor-in-chief of Hürriyet, is a part of a court case in which journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül of daily Cumhuriyet are also on trial. Dündar is living in Germany and Gül was together with Berberoğlu when the court read out its ruling. Berberoğlu was accused of providing video material about the search of trucks to Cumhuriyet; the photos and videos were already in the media, but they were placed under restriction afterwards for reasons of national security. The prosecutors, judges and gendarmerie commanders who became involved in the MİT truck operation were either arrested or placed under an arrest warrant for their alleged links with the illegal network of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is accused of masterminding the July 15, 2016, coup attempt.

Right after the ruling and before being put in jail, Berberoğlu said he was sentenced "without any evidence" and would "get in jail, get out and take those who made the ruling to court." He said it was journalism on trial.

The CHP has strongly reacted to the ruling. Engin Altay, a spokesman for the CHP, said in front of the courthouse that the ruling was fabricated by "so-called judges who want to please the...