In Doğubeyazıt in the year of 2003, there was the Festival of Culture, Arts and Tourism. Ferhat Tunç opened his concert at the festival by saying Hello Again. Police officers noted down this greeting as Hello PKK, and Erzurum State Security Court acted on that. Tunç was arrested on 7 July 2003 at a concert in Muğla and was put in Milas E Type Prison. His lawyer Ercan Demir filed an application objecting to Tunç being kept on remand, the court accepted to examine the video recordings of the concert. Thus it was proved in the end that what he said was Hello Again. Tunç was released 8 days later.
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