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RSS FeedsIPI urges Spain to free journalist held on Turkey warrant
(World News Austria)

 
 

9 august 2017 22:29:57

 
IPI urges Spain to free journalist held on Turkey warrant
(World News Austria)
 


Spain should immediately release a dual Turkish-Swedish writer and journalist arrested in Barcelona on an Interpol warrant issued by Turkey, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, calling it `a troubling new nadir in the Turkish government`s ongoing efforts to criminalise journalism`. Authorities detained Hamza Yalçin, 59, on Aug. 3 at Barcelona`s El Prat airport as he was traveling to London following a holiday in Spain. Turkey reportedly sought his apprehension for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and for alleged links to an outlawed leftist group. The accusations apparently stem from articles in the Turkish-language online magazine Odak, or Focus, which Yalçin edits...


 
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