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Key MEPs join IPI letter to Erdoğan over journalist lists

President urged to protect journalist safety after two threatening lists emerge

Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), casts his vote for the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections in Ankara, Turkey, June 24, 2018. EPA-EFE/ST

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The International Press Institute (IPI) and key members of the European Parliament’s cross-party Turkey Forum have signed a letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urging him to ensure journalist safety following the publication of two separate lists targeting individual journalists.

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