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Historic sentence for Turkish CO
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On 10 August, gay Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment on two charges of insubordination.
Mehmet Tarhan declared his conscientious objection in 2001, and was arrested in April 2005 (see PN2
WRI Turkey campaign page http://wri-irg.org/co/turkcampaign-en.htm.