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– Two Turkish journalists jailed for act of solidarity with Kurdish newspaper "Özgür Gündem" (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News January 18, 2018

Journalists Ragıp Duran and Ayşe Düzkan were convicted of "propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization," namely the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), because of columns that were published in the newspaper while they were its symbolic editors.
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