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Turks shut paper

Monday 13 December 1993 00:02 GMT
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ISTANBUL - Police raids and arrests have effectively closed down Turkey's main pro-Kurdish newspaper, Ozgur Gundem, triggering protests from human rights groups, writers and press associations, writes Hugh Pope. The detention of virtually all the paper's reporters and the confiscation of equipment meant the paper was printed on one sheet in one or two towns on Saturday.

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