DAVEY GOES FREE
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) IZMIR, May 19. The British teen-ager, Timothy Davey, has been released from a reformatory school after the signing of a general amnesty bill by President Koruturk, of Turkey.
The boy, aged 17, was released last night and was met by his mother and brothers. He was gaoled in 1971 for a term of six years and three months for selling marijuana. An estimated 80 per cent of Turkey’s 65,000 prisoners will benefit under the amnesty, signed by President Koruturk yesterday. Three Americans gaoled’ for 36 years on drug offences will also benefit from substantial reductions in their prison terms.
Two Government - backed: provisions to include political prisoners in the amnesty; I were defeated in the Turkish' Parliament, however. | Twenty Deputies from the [National Salvation Party, • the minor party in ;the coalition Government, icrossed the floor to defeat 'the inclusion of the provision ifor political prisoners.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33538, 20 May 1974, Page 13
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