Thursday, March 09, 2017

Turkish Artist Receives Two-Year Prison Sentence for Painting Destruction of Kurdish City - artforum.com / news

Turkish Artist Receives Two-Year Prison Sentence for Painting Destruction of Kurdish City

Zehra Doğan, a Turkish painter and journalist who was detained after the failed military coup last July, was sentenced to two years, nine months, and twenty-two days in jail for painting the destruction caused by Turkish security forces in the Nusaybin district of Mardin—a city in the Kurdish region of Turkey, the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet reports.

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