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Police Assault, Detain at Least 10 Reporters in Eastern Turkey - Reports

© AFP 2023 / BULENT KILICTurkish police stand near a building, where two police officers were found shot dead at their home on July 22, 2015 in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar on the border with Syria
Turkish police stand near a building, where two police officers were found shot dead at their home on July 22, 2015 in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar on the border with Syria - Sputnik International
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Turkish police assaulted and detained at least ten journalists in the eastern Kurdish-majority Van Province on Friday, local media reported.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to Today's Zaman newspaper, some of the detained reporters are from the pro-Kurdish Dicle News Agency (DIHA), and others are from Turkish IMC TV, known for programs focusing on Armenian-Turkish relations.

Police officers seized the reporter's cameras, the news outlet said.

Relations Between Turkey and Armenia have long been strained over the issue of the Armenian genocide, Turkey's support of Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict, and other issues. The border between the two neighboring states is sealed.

Turkish tensions with Kurds escalated in mid-summer 2015, when the current Turkish government launched a military campaign against militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

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