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Turkey's jailed rights defender Osman Kavala makes final appeal before verdict One of Turkey's most famous prisoners made his final appeal for freedom on Friday, at the culmination of a years-long trial that has come to define Ankara's tense ties with Western allies in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was a relative unknown when he was detained on his arrival at Istanbul's airport from a trip to a cultural centre in the Turkish city of Gaziantep in October 2017.