Turkey court frees 45 Kurdish suspects in militant case

A Turkish court released 45 defendants, including journalists and political activists, accused of links to Kurdish militants on Thursday, a small step in the country's ongoing efforts to end a Kurdish insurgency.
Lawyers had demanded the release of the defendants, on trial for links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group, after changes to Turkey's anti-terrorism laws which reduced the maximum pre-trial detention period from 10 years to five years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/27/us-turkey-kurds-idUSBREA2Q20920140327