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Mesale Tolu has been acquitted more than four years after being charged
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The German journalist Mesale Tolu was acquitted at the end of a trial in Turkey. "After 4 years, 8 months and 20 days: Acquitted on both counts!" Tolu tweeted on Monday after the verdict in Istanbul. Tolu and her husband Suat Corlu did not attend the trial. You returned to Germany in 2018 and 2019.
In the original indictment, prosecutors had accused Tolu, her husband and others of membership in the far-left Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLCP) and terrorist propaganda.
The MLCP is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey.
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