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The Grand Turk
Turkey detains pro-Kurdish news editor over tweets
2016-05-01
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish authorities on Saturday detained the chief news editor of a pro-Kurdish television channel over tweets posted on his account, the broadcaster said, as concern grows over freedom of expression in the country.

The news editor of IMC TV, Hamza Aktan, was detained at dawn Saturday by masked and armed police in a raid on his home in Istanbul, the channel said in a statement on its website.

He was released after some 12 hours in detention but still faces accusations from prosecutors of making propaganda for a "terror group", it said.
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