A Turkish high court on Thursday has ordered the release of novelist Asli Erdogan, along with another writer and a journalist, who worked for the Ozgur Gundem daily newspaper.
In August, Erdogan ─ who is not related to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ─ was detained with 20 other employees of the newspaper after a court ordered it closed for allegedly engaging in propaganda for the PKK.
She was then sent to a jail in Istanbul on preliminary charges of “membership of terrorist organisation” and “undermining national unity.”
Source: TRTWorld and agencies
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