Update, 19 February 2020: Yesterday a Turkish court acquitted Osman Kavala of the charges for which he was imprisoned in 2017. These related to the 2013 Gezi Park demonstrations in Istanbul: Kavala and eight others were accused of trying to overthrow the government through their role in the protests. However, within hours he was re-arrested as part of an investigation into a failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, under the charge of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order. We first published this article a fortnight after Kavala’s first arrest on 18 October 2017.
No one should read and hear said about themselves what I am going to write and say about Osman Kavala.
