Court finds student guilty in ‘poshu case’

ANKARA – Anadolu Agency

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High Court of Appeal has approved the four years and two months jail term for Cihan Kırmızıgül, a university student who was arrested in 2010 for “possession of explosive material and using it as a terrorist activity.”

The controversial case had come under widespread criticism, after it was alleged that Kırmızıgül was detained just for wearing a “poshu” scarf near a grocery store that was attacked by unidentified individuals wearing the same garment. He was taken into custody in February 2010, and since then the case has been referred to as the “poshu case.”

Kırmızıgül, a junior industrial engineering student at Istanbul’s Galatasaray University, was also accused of being member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but the court found him not guilty of “being member of terrorist group and committing crime in its name.”