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German-Kurdish singer Hozan Cane (archive image)
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After more than two years in prison in Turkey, the Cologne singer with the stage name Hozan Cane is free.
She left the prison in Edirne in western Turkey on Thursday night, her lawyer Newroz Akalan told the German press agency.
The court granted the defense's objection that the long term of detention was disproportionate and ordered Canes to be released.
However, an exit ban has been imposed, said Akalan.
The singer was arrested in Edirne shortly before the presidential and parliamentary elections in June 2018.
In November that year, she was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for membership in a terrorist organization.
The case was reopened in August after the highest appeals court failed to uphold the verdict.
There is no clear evidence of the assumed membership in the banned Kurdish Workers' Party PKK, it was said to justify.
The indictment was based, among other things, on content from Facebook and Twitter profiles.
Cane's daughter also indicted
Canes trial continues on October 20th.
The trial of Cane's daughter Gönül Örs, who is also charged with terrorist charges in Turkey, continues on Thursday in Istanbul.
Since January 2017, a number of arrests of German citizens for "political reasons" have caused a serious crisis between Berlin and Ankara.
In addition to the journalist Deniz Yücel, who has been living in Germany again since February 2018, the German journalist Mesale Tolu and the German human rights activist Peter Steudtner were temporarily in Turkish custody.
Both are now back in Germany.
Steudtner was acquitted of allegations of terrorist support in Turkey at the beginning of July - four human rights activists accused of him were convicted.
The trial against tolu will continue in February 2021.
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