Pair released in Turkey now back in Czech Republic

A Czech couple who were released from jail in Turkey have returned to the Czech Republic. Aid workers Marketa Všelichová and Miroslav Farkas, who were convicted of terrorism, arrived in Prague by government plane on Friday evening. After being arrested in 2016 while trying to cross the Turkish-Iraqi border they got six years for assisting the YPG, a Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a terrorist organisation.

The two were examined by doctors are returning to the Czech Republic and have been placed in quarantine for a fortnight.