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IPI Board affirms ‘utmost support’ for Kadri Gürsel

Board chair delivers letter of support in Istanbul

IPI Executive Board Chair Markus Spillmann (left) with IPI Executive Board member Kadri Gürsel.

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board today published a letter expressing their “utmost support” for fellow Board member Kadri Gürsel, whose arbitrary conviction and jailing on unfounded terrorism charges was upheld last monthby a court in Turkey.

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