Turkey Releases Journalist From Jail
Many still locked up
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 28 (UPI) — A Turkish journalist freed after two years in prison for alleged ties to an ultra-nationalist group was praised Friday by an opposition political leader.
Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said journalist Soner Yalcin, who was released Thursday but still faces trial in the OdaTV case, "dared to pay the price for properly performing his profession."