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Turkish TV editor goes on trial over Ocalan comments
A Turkish opposition TV channel editor went on trial on Wednesday over on-air comments about jailed Kurdish insurgency leader Abdullah Ocalan that could put him behind bars for more than 10 years. Tele1 chief Merdan Yanardag has been charged with spreading "terrorist propaganda" and "praising criminals" during one of his programmes in June. Yanardag's supporters say his case highlights the erosion of civil liberties and media freedoms during two decades of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conservative rule. But it also underscores the deep fissures in Turkish society about its treatment of the long-repressed Kurdish minority. Yanardag questioned why Ocalan - who he

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