The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Turkey’s arrest of Hakan Demir, online editor for the independent newspaper BirGün, and Fatih Gökhan Diler, managing editor of the news site Diken. The two detentions were part of a wave of arrests targeting critics of Turkey’s military operation across the Syrian border, which started yesterday.
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Turkey arrests two journalists over Syria criticism
Detentions part of larger wave of detentions
Oct 11, 2019
Turkish soldiers during a military operation near Syrian border, Şanlıurfa, Turkey, 09 October 2019 / EPA EFE
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