Turkey’s Parliament voted Tuesday to temporarily free 45,000 prisoners — about a third of its prison population — to limit the spread of COVID-19. The prisoner release will exclude critics of authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who’ve been convicted of terrorism charges.
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/15/headlines/turkeys_release_of_45_000_prisoners_wont_include_political_prisoners