Turkey does not seem to accept, to say the least, the newspaper that gives voice to the Kurdish minority. Emine Demir, former editor of the newspaper Azadiya Welat Kurdistan (in Kurdish, which means 'independence from the motherland'), was in fact condemned today by a court in Diyarbakir, the main town in southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish majority, to well 138 years in prison for 'propaganda in favor of Kurdish rebels'.
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Turkey, Kurdish journalist sentenced to 138 years in prison
Turkey does not seem to accept, to say the least, the newspaper that gives voice to the Kurdish minority. Emine Demir, former editor of the newspaper Azadiya Welat Kurdistan (in Kurdish, which means 'independence from the motherland'), was in fact condemned today by a court in Diyarbakir, the main town in southeastern Turkey, a Kurdish majority, to well 138 years in prison for 'propaganda in favor of Kurdish rebels'.
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