Good news for the cause of press freedom: A Turkish court on Tuesday threw out the conviction of our former colleague Ayla Albayrak. The result makes partial amends for the injustice of Ms. Albayrak’s prosecution, though not for the many other Turkish offenses against a free press.

Ms. Albayrak was convicted last year of spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdish terror group, the PKK. The supposed evidence was an eminently balanced Aug. 19, 2015 Journal news story about the fighting in a remote, Kurdish-majority Turkish...