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August 16, 2010

Turkey Deports US Journalist
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The Turkish government has deported an American freelance journalist
after detaining him for four days on allegations that he had ties to an
outlawed Kurdish group. At the time of his arrest, the
twenty-five-year-old Jake Hess was writing for Inter Press Service.
Hess’s most recent article detailed the plight of Kurdish civilians
affected by Turkish and Iranian bombings targeting the PKK, the
Kurdistan Workers’ Party.



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