A known critic of Turkey's government who was arrested in Spain has been granted conditional release.
German-Turkish writer Dogan Akhanli has written extensively about human rights in Turkey.
He usually lives in Germany, where his arrest is seen as politically motivated, and the German embassy has said he should not be deported.
Mr Akhanli is being released on condition that he stays in Madrid, his lawyer said.
"The fight was worth it," Ilias Uyar said in a Facebook post after the hearing. "Dogan Akhanli is free."
Mr Akhanli was detained on Saturday in the city of Granada, where he was reportedly on holiday.
The arrest was carried out on an Interpol "red notice" - a request to arrest a wanted individual for extradition. The request is made by national police forces, and it does not indicate the person is wanted by Interpol itself.
The 60-year-old has written about the killing in 2007 of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks - which was labelled as genocide by the German parliament last year.
Large numbers of journalists have been jailed in Turkey since a failed coup last year, and news outlets critical of the government have been shut down or taken over.
Tens of thousands of people, including academics and government officials, have also faced arrest.
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