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Turkish court keeps former NASA scientist in prison

NASA scientist Serkan Golge, in jail on coup-plot charges, lost an initial appeal to a Turkish court. His wife believes he is a captive in Ankara’s feud with Washington, which has flexed diplomatic and economic muscle to free another jailed American.
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A Turkish court on Wednesday reduced the prison sentence of an American physicist convicted on terrorism charges but refused to free him in a case that has drawn far less attention than that of the jailed American pastor in Turkey.

Serkan Golge, a 38-year-old former NASA scientist, was sentenced in February to 7 1/2 years in prison on charges he belonged to an outlawed group accused of staging a bungled military coup in Turkey in 2016. He appealed the verdict to a provincial court in the southern city of Adana.

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