By Özgür Öğret/CPJ Turkey Representative
Police detain four pro-Kurdish newspaper distributors
Police in the eastern Turkish province of Van on February 4 detained four distributors of the pro-Kurdish newspapers Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and Rojava Medya, the news website 1habervar.com reported. Ferit Aktepe, Osman İnal, Hamdullah Kumli, and Delil Babat were detained in a raid of the newspapers' distribution office in the Merkez İpekyolu District. It was not clear what charges, if any, the four will face. Turkish authorities regularly detain journalists and staff of pro-Kurdish media outlets and charge them with being members of, or propagandizing for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which the Turkish government classes as a terrorist group.
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January 26, 2017
Please join the Committee to Protect Journalists for a Q&A session with Edom Kassaye of the Zone 9 bloggers at Columbia Journalism School on January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm. Along with four other bloggers from the Zone 9 collective, Kassaye was arrested and charged with incitement and terrorism in late April 2014. The charges were ultimately dropped, and Kassaye was released on July 8, 2015.
This event marks the launch of CPJ's #FreeThePress campaign, intended to raise awareness and take action on the cases of 10 journalists around the world imprisoned on anti-state charges such as terrorism.
WHAT: Q&A with Edom Kassaye of Zone 9
WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm.
WHERE: Pulitzer Hall The Brown Institute, Columbia Journalism School, New York
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