European Court of Human Rights orders Turkey to free Osman Kavala0

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• August 25, 2026

Kavala, 68, became a symbol of a government crackdown on civil society in Turkey following his arrest in October 2017. He and others were accused of orchestrating and financing anti-government protests in 2013, which started in Istanbul’s Gezi park before spreading across Turkey. The demonstrations posed the first serious challenge to the rule of Erdogan,