ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The lawyer for a U.S. consulate employee on trial charged with espionage and links to a 2016 attempted military coup said that he expected his client to be released on bail on Thursday.
The trial of Metin Topuz, a Turkish translator and fixer for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul, has deepened strains in the already fraught ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.
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