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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey orders releases in opposition newspaper trial |
| 2017-07-30 |
| [DAWN] A ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , but kept the most prominent journalists in jail. The hugely controversial trial in Istanbul of 17 writers, cartoonists and executives from the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper on "terror" charges -- ridiculed as absurd by supporters -- began earlier this week. After five days of intense hearings, the judge ordered that seven suspects, including cartoonist Musa Kart, be released ahead of the next hearing under judicial supervision, meaning they have to report to the authorities regularly. |
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