Ahmet Sik

Press freedom activists hold copies of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet during a demonstration in solidarity with the jailed members of the newspaper outside a courthouse, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 28, 2017.

Cartoonist freed but other journalists still held in Turkey's controversial media trial

July 28, 2017
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Some have been freed and some are still in jail in a controversial trial of journalists from Turkey's oldest and most respected independent newspaper.

Cartoonist freed but other journalists still held in Turkey's controversial media trial

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