In Turkey, watchdogs note wave of arrests of Kurdish media

WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL —  Turkish authorities this month detained six Kurdish journalists from cities across the country. All six are accused of being members of a “terrorist organization,” a common charge used in legal cases against media in Turkey. The arrests came the same week that Turkey was named a leading jailer of journalists. Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ, show 11 journalists currently detained for their work in Turkey, five of whom are Kurdish. Kurds are one of the world’s largest stateless ethnic groups, an estimated 30 million of whom span the Middle East countries of Iran, Iraq

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