Cihan Erdal is back home in Ottawa after two years of detention in Turkey, where he was accused of inciting anti\u002Dgovernment protests.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“I was just an ordinary person — I would never consider myself an activist — but this was forced upon me. I didn’t want this, but I had to do something,” said Ongun, a human resources consultant.
Erdal was born and raised in Turkey and moved to Ottawa in 2017 to advance his studies in anthropology and sociology. Ongun — the two met in Turkey 12 years ago while they were both students — later joined him in Ottawa. Erdal was charged, he said, based on three social media posts he had made in support of the protests.
in the case and accused the Turkish government of using the criminal justice system to silence political opponents.Article content
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