Law of rule

摘要

ELVAN ALPAY'S heart leapt at the news. It was January 11th, and Turkey's constitutional court had just ordered the release of Mrs Alpay's father Sahin, as well as another writer, from pre-trial detention. One of over 100 journalists locked up in Turkey, Mr Alpay had been arrested on farcical terrorism charges in the summer of 2016, a couple of weeks after a violent, unsuccessful coup. He is 73 years old and faces a triple life sentence.