Status: October 18, 2021 3:59 p.m.
The Cologne singer Cane has been sentenced to more than three years in prison by a Turkish court. She is accused of supporting terrorism. Cane’s attorney announced her appointment.
In her absence, the Cologne singer Hozan Cane was sentenced to several years imprisonment for supporting terrorism in Turkey.
As her lawyer Newroz Akalan told the dpa news agency, a court in Edirne in western Turkey sentenced the 58-year-old to three years, one month and 15 days in prison for supporting the banned Kurdish workers’ party PKK.
Lawyer announces her appointment
The PKK is a terrorist organization in Turkey, Germany and the USA. Akalan announced his appointment. Hozan Cane (stage name) is now back in Germany and did not take part in the negotiation. The indictment was based, among other things, on content from Facebook and Twitter profiles.
Cane was arrested in Edirne shortly before the June 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections and spent more than two years in prison. She was then banned from leaving the country, which was lifted in July.
Cane convicted once before
The singer had already been sentenced to more than six years in prison in November 2018. She was accused of being a member of the PKK. However, an appeals court overturned the verdict due to lack of evidence, and the case was reopened last year on charges of support for the PKK.
Cane has Kurdish roots and only has German citizenship. Her daughter Gönül Örs was sentenced to more than ten years in prison in Turkey on terrorist charges at the end of June. She, too, has meanwhile been able to leave the country and is back in Cologne.