|
Turkey Frees Journalist Altan After European Rights Court Ruling
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A The Court of Cassation ruling came a day after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded the 71-year-old’s freedom in a verdict that accused ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... of violating his civil rights. Altan’s lawyer Figen Calikusu told AFP that the writer was released from the Silivri prison on Istanbul’s western outskirts a few hours after the verdict was announced. The award-winning novelist and newspaper editor was jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after writing politically-sensitive articles and columns critical of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First  ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...and supporting Kurdish rights. The 71-year-old was arrested shortly after the putsch attempt as part of a purge of media organizations and accused of supporting the uprising by "disseminating subliminal messages to the public." He was subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to overthrow the government — a ruling that was later quashed by Turkey’s top court, AFP reported. But the case was re-examined and he was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for "knowingly supporting a terrorist organization" that was involved in the 2016 coup attempt. "Very happy to hear Turkey’s Court of Cassation has just ordered the release of novelist Ahmet Altan after more than 4.5 years in jail," the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor tweeted Posted by: Fred 2021-04-16 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=599625 |