{"id":72209,"date":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=fe1ca9e4ef596f210b4d53bc458f6ae3"},"modified":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"top-turkey-court-upholds-jail-for-opposition-figure-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/top-turkey-court-upholds-jail-for-opposition-figure-party\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP TURKEY COURT UPHOLDS JAIL FOR OPPOSITION FIGURE: PARTY"},"content":{"rendered":"
Turkey’s supreme court of appeals on Thursday upheld a prison sentence for the head of the Istanbul branch of the country’s main opposition party, a party official told AFP.<\/P>
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Canan Kaftancioglu faced nearly 10 years in jail on a range of charges including “terrorist propaganda” and insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The top court on Thursday approved her conviction on three counts with a prison term of four years, 11 months and 20 days.<\/P>
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Source: National News Agency – Lebanon<\/P>
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Turkey’s supreme court of appeals on Thursday upheld a prison sentence for the head of the Istanbul branch of the country’s main opposition party, a party official told AFP.Canan Kaftancioglu faced nearly 10 years in jail on a range of charges includin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1780],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n