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Sibel Hurtas is an award-winning Turkish journalist who focuses on human rights and judicial and legal affairs. Her career includes 15 years as a reporter for the national newspapers Evrensel, Taraf, Sabah and HaberTurk and the ANKA news agency. She won the Metin Goktepe Journalism Award and the Musa Anter Journalism Award in 2004 and the Turkish Journalists Association’s Merit Award in 2005. In 2013, she published a book on the murders of Christians in Turkey. She is currently editor-in-chief of www.halagazeteciyiz.net and Ankara bureau chief of Artı Tv.
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![Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), and his wife Selvi greet people during a rally to mark the end of his 25-day long protest, dubbed "Justice March", against the detention of the party's lawmaker Enis Berberoglu, in Istanbul, Turkey July 9, 2017. A poster of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk is seen in the background. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir - RTX3AQZH](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/07/RTX3AQZH.jpg/RTX3AQZH.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ajfQLlHN)
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![Turkish riot police detain a protester during a demonstration against the arrest by Turkish authorities of an academic and a teacher who have been on a hunger strike, in Ankara, on May 23, 2017.
Turkish authorities detained an academic and a teacher in Ankara who have been on a hunger strike for over two months in protest against their dismissal in the purge that followed last year's failed coup, media reported on May 22. Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca were sacked under the state of emergency imposed after](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/06/GettyImages-687403574.jpg/GettyImages-687403574.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=f2L-crDo)
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![Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu walks during the third day of a protest, dubbed "justice march", against the detention of his party's lawmaker Enis Berberoglu, on the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey June 17, 2017. Placard reads, "Justice". REUTERS/Osman Orsal - RTS17GE4](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/06/RTS17GE4.jpg/RTS17GE4.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=iMSNNspN)
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![Riot policemen walk over gowns which were laid down by academics during a protest against the dismissal of academics from universities following a post-coup emergency decree, in the Cebeci campus of Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTX30F6V](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/02/RTX30F6V.jpg/RTX30F6V.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=4ViiAiAg)
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![Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), talks during a gathering to protest against the arrest of the city's two joint mayors on terrorism charges, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, October 30, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX2R1KM](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2017/02/RTX2R1KM.jpg/RTX2R1KM.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=bzaZFUnO)
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