[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish court ruled on Wednesday to keep a U.S. consulate employee in jail as his trial on espionage charges continues, a lawyer said, meaning he will remain in detention until the next hearing in December.
Metin Topuz, a Ottoman Turkish translator and fixer for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, has been in jug for 23 months. The next hearing in the case was set for Dec. 11, said his lawyer, Halit Akalp.
Topuz is charged with espionage and links to the network of holy man Fethullah Gülen
... 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. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost...
, who is based in the United States and blamed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
for plotting the failed 2016 coup. Washington says Topuz is innocent.
The court has repeatedly said it wants to hear another witness in the case file. But lawyers on Wednesday told the court that the address on record for that witness did not exist.
In his final defence ahead of the ruling, Topuz said he did not accept the accusations and demanded his acquittal.
Lawyers for Topuz applied in January to the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Court of Human Rights and the court accepted the application, a person close to the matter told Rooters on Tuesday.
The trial of Topuz has been one of various sources of strain in already fragile ties between NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
allies Turkey and the United States. 
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