ANKARA, Turkey — A court on Wednesday convicted a Turkish journalist of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports said, in a case that critics view as an attempt to silence a prominent voice against the government.

Fatih Altayli, 63, a veteran journalist whose YouTube programs attracted hundreds of thousands of views daily, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.

He was detained in June and charged with issuing and publicly disseminating a threat against the president.

Altayli has denied the accusation and plans to appeal his conviction. The court ruled that he remain in jail pending the appeals process, Cumhuriyet newspaper and other media reported.

The charge relates to a remark made on the “Fatih Altayli Comments” program following a poll that reportedly show

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