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ECHR Rules Against Banning Newspaper For Publishing Imprisoned PKK Leader’s Statements

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decides that banning weekly “Yedinci Gündem” for publishing statements from Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for one week is a freedom of expression violation and sentences Turkey to pay mental anguish damages to two journalists for this act.

11 December 2008 Erol Önderoğlu