A Turkish court has ordered the release of Austrian journalist Max Zirngast. On Tuesday, he was allowed to leave the police station.
Update from 25. December 2018, 13.54 PM: in Turkey under the terrorism allegations arrested Austrians, after more than three months. The 29-Year-old was allowed to leave on Tuesday, the police station in Ankara, on the he the night had to spend, as his lawyer, Murat Yilmaz, the German press Agency said.
The Austrians had already been on Christmas eve, according to a court decision released from prison, but was brought first to the nearest police station. Still, documents had to be issued.
The man should not leave the country and must Pashacasino report according to his lawyer every week to the police. The trial for alleged membership in a terrorist organization, therefore, is on 11. April.
The Austrian was on 11. September in Ankara, have been arrested. A court imposed ten days detention. The man worked for the left-wing magazine “re:volt”. He took a critical view of the relationship of Turkey to the outlawed Kurdish workers ‘ party PKK.
original message from 24. December: Turkish court orders release of Austrian journalists
Ankara – The 29-Year-old will be in the coming hours released from custody, said his lawyer Tamer Dogan news Agency AFP on Monday, without mentioning further Details. Zirngast was taken in September in Turkey and last sat in a high-security prison near Ankara in.
The Austrian was accused according to the newspaper “Hurriyet” formal “membership in a terrorist Association”. Therefore, the process should be made. A date for the start of the process, it was first published, however.
Zirngast studied since the 2015 political science at the Technical University of the Middle East in Ankara and writes for various media in Turkey and abroad, including the German radical-left magazine “re:volt”.
In a past month in the “Washington Post” published article Zirngast wrote that authorities had questioned him because of the books they had found in his apartment, and he has written articles in left-wing U.S. magazine “Jacobin,” in which he is said to have insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Austria’s foreign Minister Karin Kneissl the “possible dismissal” Zirngasts welcomed. The government will “continue to press for a speedy resolution of the criminal proceedings,” wrote Kneissl in the short message service Twitter.
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