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Delegation to recover journalists’ bodies stalled at border over two days

> “The right to be buried is being taken away,” said Kamuran Tarhan, a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP, on Wednesday, as a delegation attempting to recover the bodies of Kurdish journalists Cîhan Bilgin and Nazim Daştan remained blocked at Turkey’s Habur border crossing for over two days. The journalists, killed in a Turkish drone strike on 19 December while reporting on clashes in northeast Syria, have yet to be returned to their families.
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> The delegation, including the journalists’ families, DEM Party MP Tarhan, members of the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG), the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD), and civil society representatives, has been awaiting clearance to cross into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) since Monday. Turkish authorities have cited a “technical failure” as the reason for the delay, but many, including those stranded at the border, have dismissed this explanation as implausible.

https://medyanews.net/delegation-to-recover-journalists-bodies-stalled-at-border-over-two-days/

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prior background from barrons via afp:
> December 22, 2024 - Turkish authorities arrested nine people, including seven journalists, for taking part in banned demonstration in support of two Turkish-Kurdish journalists killed by a Turkish drone in northern Syria, media and rights groups said Sunday. Nazim Dastan, 32, and Cihan Bilgin, 29, who worked for Kurdish media, were killed Thursday near the Tishrin dam, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Aleppo, when their car exploded, the Dicle Firat Turkish journalists' association said.

The MLSA Turkish media rights group said 59 people had been detained for taking part in a protest Saturday banned by police. It said 50 people subsequently released. "Seven journalists detained yesterday as they tried to make a statement in favour of the dead journalists Nazim Dastan and Cihan Bilgin" have been formally arrested for "terrorist propaganda", MLSA said on the X social media platform.

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