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Turkey’s Nedim Türfent: 800 days behind bars

Kurdish reporter sentenced to nearly nine years for coverage of special forces operation

Turkey’s Nedim Türfent: 800 days behind bars

Today marks the 800th day of Turkish-Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent’s incarceration.

Türfent, a photojournalist with the now-shuttered Dicle News Agency, was arrested on May 12, 2016 following his journalistic coverage of a Turkish military operation against a group of Kurdish workers.

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