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The Grand Turk
Turkish court orders release of Amnesty's Taner Kilic
2018-08-16
[Al Jazeera] A court in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
has ordered the release of Taner Kilic, honorary chair of Amnesia Amnesty International's Ottoman Turkish branch, the rights group said in a statement.

Kilic had been in pre-trial detention since June 2017, when he was tossed in the clink
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
alongside 22 lawyers for allegedly having links to an outlawed group who the government blames for a failed coup attempt in July 2016.

Authorities accused Kilic of using ByLock, an encrypted communication software which the government says is used by members of the group led by 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...
, a self-exiled holy man based in the US. Gulen denies any involvement in the coup bid.

Amnesty has consistently denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!
against Kilic, saying he had never downloaded the application.

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