Turkish students given suspended jail sentences over 2018 Syria protest
03.02.2020
An Istanbul court on Friday sentenced 27 students from the country's top-ranking university to nearly a year in jail over 2018 protests against a Turkish military operation in northern Syria, state news agency Anadolu reported.
The court case is against 30 defendants, all of them from Istanbul's Bogazici University. The 27 were charged with spreading terrorist propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Anadolu said.
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