A Turkish man who served over 11 years in prison before being acquitted will receive just under 9 Turkish Liras (less than $3) in compensation, after the legal expert calculated the amount based on the minimum wage of the period when he was jailed, Habertürk reported.
The man was detained on May. 26, 1980, and was sentenced to prison over membership of the outlawed far-left Dev-Sol.
He was tried under arrest with 1,243 suspects before being acquitted of 13 charges including “killing, attempting to kill, and bombing,” after a 32-year legal process and serving 11 years and 59 days in prison.
The man then filed a complaint for compensation worth 1.2 million liras, 200,000 liras of which was for monetary damages and the rest was for spiritual damages. The expert in the case calculated the compensation as 8.78 million liras but decreased this to just 8.80 liras by removing six zeros, taking into account the runaway inflation at the time he was jailed.
