The case of Adil Gülçek, who was the former executive of Zaman daily before a trustee was appointed to the newspaper and was arrested on June 3, 2017, was combined with the main case thus increasing the number of arrested defendants to 22 and the total number of defendants to 31.
Kayyum öncesinde Zaman Gazetesi’nin yöneticisi olan ve 3 Haziran 2017’de tutuklanan Adil Gülçek’in dosyasının da davayla birleşmesi nedeniyle davada sanık sayısı 31, tutuklu sanık sayısı ise 22’ye çıktı.