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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkish teen accused of insulting Erdogan freed from custody |
| 2014-12-26 |
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of a 16-year-old high school pupil incarceratedYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , following accusations his detention was the latest sign of the country veering to authoritarianism. The boy, Mehmet Emin Altunses, was released following a complaint by his lawyer over his arrest in the central city of Konya. He was met by his parents as he left the main courthouse building in the city but defiantly declared his political activism would continue, the CNN-Turk channel reported. "There is no question of taking a step back from our path, we will continue along this road," he said as he was released. Altunses had delivered a speech on Wednesday in Konya, a bastion of the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), where he accused Erdogan and the ruling party of corruption. |
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