June 22, 2001
Datelines and Firing Lines
From behind the bars of a prison window, Ocak Isik Yurtçu grinned as he held up his award, showing it off to a hundred fellow journalists cheering outside.
It was an extraordinary scene that day, July 16, 1997, at the remote prison in Tekirdag, Turkey. Yurtçu, a stocky, bearded editor, sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for publishing stories about the Kurdish separatist rebellion, proudly displayed a plaque naming him as a recipient of the International Press
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