Turkish Judge Releases Minor Who Threatened Pastor

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(Compass Direct News) – A Turkish judge in the Black Sea coastal city of Samsun on Sunday (January 6) set free a teenager who confessed to making death threats against a pastor and his church, a day after authorities arrested the minor. Judge Sinan Sonmez of Samsun’s First Minor Petty Offenses Court ruled that 17-year-old Semih Seymen be freed “because of his youth.” Seymen told police he called pastor Orhan Picaklar of Samsun Agape Church several times starting December 29, threatening to kill him. In an official protest filed today at the Samsun court, Picaklar objected to the decision to release the defendant. “The defendant openly confessed,” Picaklar told today’s daily Taraf newspaper. “He said he was going to do a massacre tomorrow, the police heard him say this over the telephone, but because he is ‘underage’ he is set free?”