An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced 25 journalists to prison terms of up to seven and a half years over links to the Gülen movement blamed by Turkey for the 2016 failed coup in a mass trial of media staff detained after the putsch bid. Twenty-three of the journalists were convicted of membership of an armed terror group while two more on lesser charges, the Dogan news agency reported. Almost all of those jailed worked for media close to the group of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says organised the coup bid but he denies these allegations. Many of…