Oguzhan Aydin, the man who murdered Fr. Andrea Santoro in Trabzon on 5 February 2006 is among the 31,482 detainees who were released from Turkish prisons in recent weeks to make room for tens of thousands of members of the military, intellectuals, businessmen and journalists who were accused of backing the attempted coup of July 15th. The news was reported by a number of sources, including Turkey’s Armenian newspaper Agos and the website Turkish Minute, created in the US to pick up the baton as it were from Turkish newspaper Zaman, after by Erdogan imposed normalisation measures a month or so ago. More on this here.
