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Irfan Aktan

Irfan Aktan

Mar 2, 2016

Sibel Yigitalp (L), a parliamentarian from the the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and Abdullah Akengin, a former local mayor, holds a sit-in protest against the curfew in Sur district, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX1ZABH — Sibel Yigitalp (L), a parliamentarian from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, and Abdullah Akengin, a former local mayor, hold a sit-in protest against the curfew in Sur district, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Dec. 18, 2015. — REUTERS/Sertac Kayar

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