Journalist and interpreter Suzan Zengin was released pending trial by the Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court. Zengin stands accused of "membership in an illegal organization". She was detained for almost two years. Her lawyer Gül Altay told bianet, "For the first time we had the feeling that the court actually 'listened' to us".

Zengin, working for the Ýþçi Köylü ('Worker Peasant') newspaper, was arrested after she had been taken into police custody on 28 August 2009. She was incarcerated in the Bakýrköy Women and Children Detention House in Istanbul since then.