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Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the imprisonment of newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay violated his rights to security, liberty and the right to be elected. Atalay, 47, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in April 2022 after being convicted of trying to overthrow the government by organising the nationwide Gezi Park protests in 2013 along with Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and six others. All defendants denied the charges regarding the protests, which they said developed spontaneously, and which marked the biggest popular challenge to President Tayyip Erdogan in his so far two decades in power.
Turkey s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the imprisonment of newly elected opposition lawmaker Can Atalay violated his rights to security, liberty and the right to be elected.. -October 25, 2023 at 09:07 am EDT
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