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ISTANBUL: An Istanbul court ruled to keep renowned Turkish activist and businessman Osman Kavala behind bars in solitary confinement on Friday in the high-profile second trial of Kavala and Turkish-American academic Henri Barkey. The court also merged the current case with the landmark anti-government Gezi Park protests’ trial. Amid anti-American conspiracy theories about the involvement of the US in orchestrating the failed coup attempt in 2016, Barkey and Kavala are being tried on espionage charges and accusations of helping the coup attempt. If convicted, they face life sentences. Speaking in his defense on Friday Kavala said that as the knowledge of the falseness of allegations against him is more and more publicized, each refusal of his bail becomes an increasingly egregious rights violation.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Friday ruled to combine the two cases against philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been detained more than three years without conviction, after an appeals court overturned his acquittal in one of them.
Immediately after he and eight others were acquitted last February in a case related to nationwide Gezi Park protests in 2013, Kavala was ordered jailed pending trial over charges related to a 2016 coup attempt. The acquittal verdict was also appealed.
Last month, the appeals court ruled to overturn the Gezi-related verdicts because some evidence was excluded and that it should be joined with the other case against Kavala.
Last Updated On: Dec 30 2020 12:09 Gmt+3
Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled to keep philanthropist and businessman Osman Kavala in pre-trial detention, rejecting claims that his rights to freedom had been violated.
The Constitutional Court’s General Assembly made the decision on Tuesday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The case is being watched closely by the European Union and human rights groups, who have called for his immediate release.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged a fresh start in relations with the EU during a meeting with Charles Michel, president of the European Council, two weeks ago. That raised hopes Kavala might be freed as part of democratic reforms Erdogan has promised.