İStanbul Bar Executive Freed Pending Trial on Terrorism Charges - Stockholm Center for Freedom

İstanbul Bar executive freed pending trial on terrorism charges - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Fırat Epözdemir, a board member of the İstanbul Bar Association who is standing trial on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and disseminating terrorist propaganda, was released pending trial following a hearing on Thursday, Turkish Minute reported. Epözdemir was arrested on January 25 after returning from a Council of Europe meeting and was held for 127 days at Marmara Prison in Silivri. He appeared before the İstanbul 24th High C…

Lawyer Fırat Epözdemir, who was tried for "being a member of an armed terrorist organization" and "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" and faced up to 20 years in prison, was released on probation at the hearing he was held in. The court ruled that the defendant should be released, imposing a ban on traveling abroad.

A decision was made to release lawyer Fırat Epözdemir, a member of the Board of Directors of the Istanbul Bar Association, at the first hearing of the case in which he was tried.