#Turkey Frees Top Journalist, Arrests Academic Brother in Coup Probe

Local Editor

A Turkish court on Thursday freed a prominent journalist but placed under arrest his academic brother, after their detention in the probe into the July 15 attempted putsch sparked an international campaign for their release.

Journalist and writer Ahmet Altan and his brother Professor Mehmet Altan were detained on September 10 and were two of the most high-profile figures detained in the controversial crackdown after the botched coup.

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