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– A newspaper in the dock on Turkey's Press Freedom Day (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News July 24, 2017

Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet's exiled former editor-in-chief, and the 2017 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, looks back on the night 13 journalists were arrested and placed in solitary cells after police raided their homes.
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