Turkish prosecutors seek long prison terms for 18 journalists over charges of supporting terrorism.

According to a report by the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet on Wednesday, Istanbul’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office indicted the journalists for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization,” urging the court to sentence each of the accused individuals up to 7.5 years in jail.

Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar is also among the indicted journalists.

The journalists are accused of releasing the pictures of a deadly hostage-taking incident by the extremist DHKP-C group back in March, which claimed the life of Mehmet Selim Kiraz, a prosecutor, in his Istanbul office.

The leftist group, which is declared a terrorist organization under Turkish law, conducted the kidnapping in an attempt to pressure Ankara into assuming the responsibility for the death of a 15-year-old boy during anti-government protests.

Berkin Elvan was injured in a demo in Istanbul in 2013 and lost his life a year later. Kiraz was investigating the death of the teenager at the time of the terrorist attack.

The prosecutors say the journalists promoted the cause of DHKP-C by publishing the pictures of the incident. Dundar rejects the allegation, saying the pictures were released only to demonstrate the atrocities of the extremist group.