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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Turkey jails Kurdish newspaper editor

"Turkey jails Kurdish newspaper editor
By Jonathan Head
BBC News, Istanbul

A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for publishing material sympathetic to the outlawed PKK.

The editor, Ozan Kilinc, allowed 12 editions of the paper to go out with references to the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party."

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