Murder

A man sentenced to 21.5 years for murder in the Aegean province of İzmir walked free after serving six years and seven months in prison as a court overturned his conviction. The man was given 104,000 Turkish Liras (approximately $30,000) in compensation, which is low, considering he spent his youth in prison.

A woman was murdered in front of a cafe in ''Lagera'' district in Sofia. According to the initial data, a 64-year-old man has shot his 42-year-old wife.

The signal for the shot took place around 15.00h. The medics have arrived at place and found her death.

The early released this year will reach a record number. From the beginning of the year to July 21, prisoners released before serving their entire sentence were 632, according to Directorate-General for Execution of Penalties. If the pace persists, by the end of the year there will be another 451 people. This will lead to a record 1083.

The police in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, said the man who ran his jaguar over a group of people on Friday in the center of the city and killed one man acted deliberately, TASS reported.

A 45-year-old man who was being treated at a mental hospital in Athens when he stabbed his partner to death this week was charged with murder Friday. A prosecutor also charged him with breaking laws on drugs and firearms.

Miodrag Linta says that "Serb promoters of the supposed (Srebrenica) genocide" are unaware of the enormous damage they are doing to the reconciliation process.

Authorities have determined that the phone number of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacker who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on Jan. 1 was registered in the cellphone of another ISIL suspect, who appeared for in a trial the first time in the Mediterranean province of Antalya on July 10. 

The Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists has expressed its deepest concern over a recent decision in the Curuvija murder trial.

Twelve Bosnian Serbs convicted of genocide have served their sentences and been released - some have returned to live in places where the massacres happened, while others continue to deny that Srebrenica was genocide.

Milan Radonjic and Ratko Romic, accused for the killing of journalist Slavko Curuvija, have been released to house arrest.

Reacting to this, Veran Matic, chairman of the Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists, said he was "surprised with the strange decision, especially as the fourth accused in the case, Miroslav Kurak, is still on the run."