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Turkish Journalist Detained Over Tweet, Others Go on Trial

Police in Turkey have detained a prominent investigative journalist over a series of social-media postings. Ahmet Sik, a government critic, was detained in Istanbul on December 29 on suspicion that he engaged in "terrorist propaganda" on Twitter, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported. The journalist tweeted that he was being taken away. "I am being detained. I am going to be taken to the prosecutor's office over a tweet," he said on Twitter. Meanwhile,...


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