Hamza Yalçın: “Freedom of expression doesn’t exist anywhere at the moment”
Hamza Yalçın: “Freedom of expression doesn’t exist anywhere at the moment”
By Jaz Allen-Sutton
Hamza Yalçın is free. After two months in Spanish prison the government decided against extraditing the Turkish-Swedish journalist to Turkey. How does he feel? What are his plans?
Hamza Yalçin, editor of "Odak Dergisi" (picture: Odak Dergisi)
“You were in prison for 56 days,” I said.
“Really, is it that long?” Hamza Yalçın replied.
He had heard only a few hours earlier that he was going to be allowed to return to his home in Sweden after being arrested whilst on holiday in Barcelona. Charges of insulting the President and disseminating terrorist propaganda…
