Turkyilmaz Freed
Blogrel cites a Regnum news item in Russian reporting that Yektan Turkyilmaz has been sentenced to a two year suspended sentence. That doesn’t matter, however, as the young academic was freed immediately. After reading the news on Blogrel and as I didn’t attend today’s court session, Emil Danielyan at RFE/RL has confirmed the news. However, Turkyilmaz cannot leave Armenia for the next two weeks but is reported to be delighted by that restriction. He says he wants to spend more time in the Armenian archives.
There’ll be a comprehensive report on the ArmeniaLiberty site later on in the day. In the meantime, just a word of advice, Yektan. Try and stay away from the Vernisage and any old book stores…
