Turkey frees journalist Ahmet Altan after European rights court ruling ...Kuwait

Ahmet Altan was released from the Silivri prison on Istanbul's western outskirts a few hours after the verdict was announced on Wednesday. A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the release of journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan after more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in a failed 2016 coup attempt that he had always denied. The Court of Cassation ruling came a day after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded the 71-year-old's freedom in a verdict that accused Turkey of violating his civil rights. Altan's lawyer Figen Calikusu told AFP that the writer was released from the Silivri prison on Istanbul's western outskirts a few hours after the verdict was announ

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