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Kurdish journalists fear Turkish operations will continue until they are all behind bars
DFG co-chairwoman Dicle Muftuoglu

KURDISH journalists appealed for urgent international solidarity today, fearing that the latest wave of arrests in Turkey will not stop until they are all behind bars. 

The appeal followed raids on the homes of editors and journalists across the country in which at least 21 were detained by Turkish security forces. 

Dicle Firat Journalists Association (DFG) co-chairman Serdar Altun was held in Wednesday’s crackdown, along with Jin News director Safiye Alagas and editor Gulsen Kocuk.

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