April 13, 2021 03:00:07 pm The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey has violated the rights of noted Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan under the European Convention on Human Rights arising from his pre-trial detention on charges relating to the attempted coup d’état of July 2016. Altan is a noted 71-year-old journalist from Istanbul and founder of the newspaper Taraf, which drew critics from the military and government establishment for its coverage. In 2016, he wrote several articles criticizing the government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that formed the basis of charges against him for “disseminating subliminal messages to the public that were evocative of a coup.” He was also charged with being a member of the Fetullahist Terrorist Organisation (FËTO), which the government held responsible for the attempted coup.