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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Turkey’s Jails Filling Up With Journalists

Turkey’s Jails Filling Up With Journalists
Written by David Rosenberg
Published Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Kurdish reporter’s arrest over weekend is the latest in wave of detentions

Aziz Tekin, a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, had the misfortune of becoming a news item himself over the weekend when he became the 105th journalist in Turkey to be put behind bars.

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