(MENAFN) In a case seen by critics of President Tayyip Erdogan as an attack on free speech, a Turkish court controlled on Friday that four prominent members of an dissent newspaper must remain in detention but freed seven others for the duration of the trial.
Silk told the crowded courtroom, "They're telling us to kneel. Members of this rotten entity, with its gunmen and tyrants who lack honor, should know very well that until today I've only kneeled before my mother and father, and will never ever kneel before anybody else."
Meaning they cannot leave the country and must report regularly to a police station, Chief judge Abdurrahman Orkun Dag freed seven others until the next hearing on "judicial probation" .
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