Turkish Court Releases Jailed Journalist Sahin Alpay
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish penal court has released a journalist detained for more than a year over alleged ties to a failed military coup in 2016, the private news agency Dogan reported.
Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, was ordered to be released late on Friday under judicial control and confinement to his house while his trial continues.
"I am glad to be reunited with my family again but I cannot say I am free,” Dogan quoted Alpay as saying as he left Silivri jail, west of Istanbul, after 20 months in detention.
Turkish authorities have detained 50,000 people suspected of links to the failed coup in July 2016, which the government blames on supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Gulen has denied any link to the coup attempt.
Sahin Alpay, a journalist in the now defunct Zaman daily, was ordered to be released late on Friday under judicial control and confinement to his house while his trial continues.
"I am glad to be reunited with my family again but I cannot say I am free,” Dogan quoted Alpay as saying as he left Silivri jail, west of Istanbul, after 20 months in detention.
Turkish authorities have detained 50,000 people suspected of links to the failed coup in July 2016, which the government blames on supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Gulen has denied any link to the coup attempt.