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| German Woman on Trial in Turkey over Failed Coup |
| 2017-09-10 |
| [AnNahar] A 49-year-old German woman is standing trial in a The accused, who has not been named, faces several years in jail if found guilty of belonging to the movement of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , which has been branded a terror organization by Ankara, the reports said. At the trial in the southern city of Karaman, prosecutors accused her not only of membership of the group, which ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... calls FETO, but said she led one of its local women's organizations. Gulen, an Islamic preacher who lives in exile in the US state of Pennsylvania, denies any link to the botched putsch in July 2016. The prosecutors said they have electronic proof of the woman's alleged actions against the The I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in August 2016, becoming the first German citizen to be detained after the attempted overthrow of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... She was granted conditional release in September but not allowed to leave Turkey. But her case is far lower in profile than that of Deniz Yucel, a correspondent for the Die Welt daily newspaper, whose arrest in February on terror charges sparked outrage in Germany. German journalist Mesale Tolu has been held on similar charges since May, while human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... activist Peter Steudtner was arrested in a July raid. At least 10 Germans are currently detained in Turkey for political reasons, according to the German foreign ministry. |
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