Turkey's media regulator on Thursday ordered an opposition channel off the air for a week for comments made by its chief editor about jailed Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan. Tele1 editor Merdan Yanardag was arrested and put in pre-trial detention on June 27 for allegedly spreading "terrorist propaganda" and "praising criminals" on air. Yanardag questioned why Ocalan -- who headed an insurgency waged by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) until his capture by Turkish forces in 1999 -- was still being held in solitary confinement on a prison island in the Sea of Marmara. Yanardag was detained by police within hours of making the comments. He was formally arr
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