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| The Grand Turk |
| Court in Izmir orders Turkey Amnesty chief to stay behind bars |
| 2017-10-27 |
| [PRESSTV] A The court in Izmir ordered on Thursday that Taner Kilic, who was detained in June, remain in detention pending trial. Kilic is accused of having links to a group led by US-based preacher 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... , who Ankara accuses of having criminal masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt. The latest hearing in Izmir comes a day after Kilic also went on trial in Istanbul via video link from a prison in Izmir in another case along with 10 rights activists, including Amnesty’s ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... director Idil Eser, who were tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! while attending a digital security training workshop in July. Kilic was not present at the workshop, because he was in prison after being arrested the previous month. However, ars longa, vita brevis... he is accused of knowing about it. Kilic is the voluntary chairman of Amnesty's board of directors handling administrative affairs in Turkey and Eser is in charge of day-to-day business including Amnesty Turkey's campaigns for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... Eser and seven others were freed for the duration of their trial after the first hearing in Istanbul on Wednesday on charges of "aiding" an armed terror group. Two others had been released earlier. |
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