Seven journalists and two politicians face prison sentences over protest for Nazım and Cihan

Seven journalists and two politicians face prison sentences over protest for Nazım and Cihan

On 19 December 2024, Kurdish journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were murdered in a targeted drone attack by the Turkish state south of Kobanê. Both had been working for the Kurdish media for many years and were most recently reporting from the Euphrates front about the attacks by the Turkish army and the jihadist alliance SNA on the self-governing Rojava. Two days later, on 21 December, press associations based in Turkey wanted to make a …