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Turkey To Release 38,000 Convicts
Turkey is to release 38,000 prisoners jailed before last month's failed coup, as its jails are crowded with new detainees.
Turkey is to release 38,000 prisoners jailed before last month's failed coup, as its jails are crowded with new detainees. We'll have the details from our correspondent in Istanbul.
Also in the programme: The kidnap of Mexican drug baron's son, an interview with a former teacher at the Australian detention centre on the Pacific Island of Nauru, the dangers of driverless cars, plus all the Olympic highlights.
(Photo: Prison in Turkey. Credit: AFP)
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Wed 17 Aug 201610:06GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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