TRIALS 1925, The Ankara State Independence Court Case 1927-1928, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case 1928, The Rize Criminal Court Case 1928, The Ankara Criminal Court Case 1931, The Case at the Istanbul Second Criminal Court of First Instance 1933, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case 1933, The Case at the Istanbul Third Criminal Court of First Instance 1933-1934, The Bursa Criminal Court Case 1936-1937, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case 1938, The Case at the Military Court of the Military College Headquarters 1938, The Case at the Military Court of the Naval Headquarters 1933, The Istanbul Criminal Court Case Nâzım Hikmet was charged twice after publishing Gece Gelen Telgraf. The first summons to trial came from the Istanbul Republican Attorney General, who had confiscated the books. This indictment of 5 March 1933-which was aimed at Nâzım Hikmet, Ahmet Halit the publisher, and Ali, the owner of press-claimed they had "provoked the public against the regime." Nearly two weeks after Gece Gelen Telgraf was collected, the poet was arrested on 22 March 1933, on grounds of launching a secret organisation and making communist propaganda by distributing booklets and posting bills about revolution on walls in Bursa, Istanbul, and Adana. He was interrogated in Istanbul for a while and then he was sent to Bursa for final judgement on 1 June 1933. In fact, the closed-session hearing on Gece Gelen Telgraf in Istanbul had not been concluded yet. Even the press was not allowed to be present at the hearing. The fact that the court room was rather overcrowded in the hearing related to his five books and that when the decision was declared as acquittal that torrent of applause had gone up, were not forgotten. The hearings after Nâzım was sent to Bursa, which alone the attorneys were allowed to join resulted in a six-month sentence. The lawyers applied to the Court of Appeal.