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Demonstrators protest the June 19 arrest of three people, including the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders' Turkey representative, in central Istanbul, in charges stemming from their participation in a show of solidarity with beleaguered pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem, June 21, 2016. Police raided the newspaper's Istanbul office on August 16 and detained dozens of journalists. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of June 19

Court indicts TV journalist on terrorism charges for tweets The Bakırköy Second Court of Serious Crimes in Istanbul indicted Hamza Aktan, news editor at the pro-Kurdish television station IMC TV, on charges of “making propaganda for a [terrorist] organization” in connection with nine posts he made to Twitter from 2015 through January 2016, IMC TV…

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