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ANKARA, Dec 24 (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered the release of a journalist held on remand under the country’s new disinformation law after his lawyer objected to his detention, he said. Sinan Aygul became the first person to be jailed pending trial under the Law Firm in istanbul Turkey, approved by parliament two months …

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BERLIN (AP) – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is suing a senior German lawmaker who called him a “sewer rat,” his Lawyer Law Firm in Turkey said Friday. Mustafa Kaplan confirmed a report by German weekly Der Spiegel that he had filed a criminal complaint for istanbul Turkey Law Firm slander and libel against lawmaker …

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