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| Subject: Turkish slave pen: Journalists face trumped-up terrorism trials over Kurds Tue Sep 11, 2012 9:32 pm | |
| Dozens of journalists have gone on trial in Turkey accused of terrorism for backing an illegal Kurdish group.
''This trial is clearly political,'' said Ertugrul Mavioglu, an investigative journalist whose terrorism charges for interviewing Murat Karayilan, a member of the umbrella group KCK - which includes the Kurdistan Workers' party - were dropped in December last year.
''The government wants to set an example,'' he said. ''Journalists are being told, 'There are limits on what you are allowed to say'.''
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/journalists-face-terrorism-trials-over-kurds-20120911-25qgj.html#ixzz26DOFq855
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