{"id":1662,"date":"2026-11-12T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T10:45:20","slug":"three-defendants-released-pending-trial-in-grup-yorum-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/three-defendants-released-pending-trial-in-grup-yorum-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Three defendants released pending trial in Grup Yorum case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the folk music band Grup Yorum -Cem Dursun, Merve Kurt and R\u0131dvan Akba\u015f- were released at the end of the sixth hearing held at the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court yesterday (11 November).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cem Dursun, who was being held at Marmara No. 6 L-Type Prison in Silivri, had been on an indefinite hunger strike for 197 days in protest against being held in a solitary cell and under 24-hour CCTV surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The People\u2019s Law Office announced the release decisions via its social media account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on the release decisions via his social media account, \u0130skender Bayhan, MP for the Labor Party (EMEP), stated that Cem Dursun, Merve Kurt and R\u0131dvan Akba\u015f had been held in prison for months on baseless charges, without any evidence or concrete allegations being put forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bayhan noted that Muharrem Cengiz, who had been on a hunger strike for 17 days in protest against prison conditions, could not be released due to a sentence he had received in a separate case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cem Dursun, a member of Grup Yorum who was on his 197th day of an indefinite hunger strike, along with Merve Kurt and R\u0131dvan Akba\u015f, have been released pending trial. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2753],"tags":[422,425,3144,424,423,99,3145,3128,3146,433],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cases","tag-bakur","tag-cayan-demirel","tag-cem-dursun","tag-dicle-anter","tag-ertugrul-mavioglu","tag-grup-yorum","tag-merve-kurt","tag-released","tag-ridvan-akbas","tag-sinema-yargilanamaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susma24.com\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}