Turkish court releases students jailed on ‘terror propaganda’ charges
The trial of 22 Turkish students opened today with their release, though they still face terror charges for participating in a protest against Turkey's military incursion in Syria.
The remaining 14 students from Istanbul’s liberal Bogazici University who were charged with spreading “terror propaganda” for protesting Turkey’s military offensive against the Syrian Kurdish enclave Afrin were freed pending trial by the judge in their first courtroom hearing today.
The youths were detained and arrested after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called them “terrorists in the guise of students.”
