Turkey frees Amnesty International chief

Good news. The court in Istanbul has ordered the release of Amnesty's honourary chairman in Turkey, Taner Kilic”, said the researcher in AI, Adrew Garder, via a tweet.

We expect him to be released tonight. The festivities will begin then”, he wrote away.

Kilic had been arrested and held in prison in Izmir for more than a year under charges of backing, cleric Fetullah Gulen, whom Ankara formally accuses of standing behind the failed military stamp of 2016.

Gullen denies any involvement in the case.

In a separate event this day, a Turkish court refused the appeal to release American pastor Andrew from domestic arrest Bruceon and also refused to lift the travel stop outside the pastor's country.