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Turkey Calls for Fresh Arrest of Rights Defender Kavala After Acquittal

Agence France-Presse

   SILIVRI, TURKEY - Turkey's civil society swung from hope to despair
   Tuesday after a new arrest warrant was issued for leading rights
   defender Osman Kavala just hours after a court ordered his release from
   jail.

   Kavala and eight other defendants were acquitted by a court outside
   Istanbul in the highly controversial Gezi Park trial.

   But within hours, a new warrant from the Istanbul prosecutor's office
   called for his arrest as part of the investigation into a failed 2016
   coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.

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