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| Die Welt reporter Deniz Yucel freed from Turkey jail | |
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| Die Welt journalist Deniz Yucel has been freed from jail in Turkey after a year in detention accused of spreading propaganda, German officials say. | |
| His case was an irritant in German-Turkish relations, and on Thursday Chancellor Angela Merkel had pressed for his release. | |
| Mr Yucel, 44, was arrested in Istanbul a year ago and accused of writing propaganda in support of terrorism. | |
| Turkey labels separatist militants in the Kurdish community as "terrorists". | |
| Mr Yucel was arrested after reporting that the Turkish energy minister's email account had been hacked. The journalist has both German and Turkish citizenship. | |
| He is among more than 100 journalists and writers arrested in Turkey since the failed July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | |
| The authorities accuse them of links to the alleged coup mastermind - US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen - or to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels. | |
| The German government's relations with Turkey - a Nato ally - have been strained because of Mr Erdogan's massive crackdown on opponents since the coup attempt. |