Turkish authorities on Saturday freed the top adviser to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim detained on suspicion of links to the movement of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed for last year's failed coup, Firstpost reported citing state media.
Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official, was released under judicial supervision which means he should still face trial, a date for which has yet to be set.
He had been taken into custody in Ankara earlier in June along with his wife Gulumser Erdem.
Unlike her husband, she was, however, placed under arrest by an Ankara court ahead of trial, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Erdem, who was questioned for three days, had been accused of seeking to violate the constitution and being a leader of "an armed terror group".
