Turkey: Seven Women Among 20 Kurdish Journalists Detained After Simultaneous Police Raids

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Twenty Kurdish journalists, seven of them women, were detained after simultaneous police raids in Diyarbakir early this morning. Officials have yet to disclose the charges, if any, on which the journalists were taken into custody. The Coalition For Women In Journalism reminds the Turkish authorities that members of the press are entitled to due process.

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