Saturday, October 19, 2013

Turkey's 'Anti-Terror' Law Casts Increasingly Wide Net

Turkey's 'Anti-Terror' Law Casts Increasingly Wide Net

By Dorian Jones, VOA

ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's democratic reform package is facing criticism following the Justice Ministry's revelation that 20,000 people have been convicted under the country's anti-terrorism law during the last four years, 8,000 of whom were jailed just in the last 12 months. Most of them, including journalists and members of the country's legal Kurdish party, were jailed for non-violent offenses.

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