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Turkey: perpetrators freed

A criminal court in January released two former military officers and an Islamic university researcher who had been jailed for nearly four years on suspected involvement in the 2007 murders of three Christians in southeast Turkey.

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The three murdered men

At the 101st hearing of the case on 21 January, the Malatya First High Criminal Court ruled that the three men – Ret. Col. Mehmet Ulger, Maj. Haydar Yesil and Ruhi Abat – be set free pending the conclusion of the trial.