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An ultra-nationalist Myanmar monk was released from prison on March 9 after serving time for inciting unrest in an anti-Rohingya protest in 2016, a rare punishment handed to one of the country’s hardline Buddhist clergymen.

A court in Istanbul sentenced 25 journalists to different terms of imprisonment - up to seven and a half years - on allegations of ties to the group, blamed as organizer of a failed coup d'état in 2016
Twenty-three of the journalists were convicted of membership in an armed criminal group, while two others had a lighter charge.

The proceedings took 17 months to complete.

Members of these families belong to the movement of Fethullah Gulen - so they felt that their lives and human rights were endangered in Turkey, the daily Dnevnik is reporting.

There is an interesting backstory to the relationship between Amnesty International and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Twenty years ago, the man who is now Turkey's president was at the beginning of his political career as Istanbul's new and ambitious mayor, when he was imprisoned by the secular authorities for publicly reciting a religious call-to-arms.

The European Union will start preparing sanctions against Myanmar generals over killings of Rohingya Muslims by formally calling on the bloc’s foreign policy chief next week to draw up a list of possible names, two diplomats said.

The Netherlands has granted asylum to 73 percent of Turkish suspects linked to the Gülen network, widely accused to have orchestrated the deadly coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a report on Feb. 21 by the BBC's Turkish service, Hurriyet reported.

As Macedonia's President Gjorge Ivanov paid an official visit to Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reminded Macedonia that Ankara expected it to cooperate more in the fight against Erdogan's foes among supporters of the exiled cleric Fetullah Gulen.

A Turkish court has sentenced three prominent journalists to a life in prison because of relations with the organization accused of an unsuccessful attempt at a coup d'état in 2016, state media reported, quoted by BGNES.

Beta reported on Wednesday, citing AP, that it was unknown for how long he would remain in the Netherlands, nor what he would do there.

With a barbed wire fence on one side and a putrid creek on the other, 6,000 Rohingya Muslims in a strip of land between Bangladesh and Myanmar anxiously wait to see if they will be sent back to homes few want to return to.