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Three journalists from Turkish state news agency kidnapped by PKK: Media

Published: 21 Feb 2016 - 01:22 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 10:07 am
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ISTANBUL: Three reporters for Turkey's state-owned Anadolu Agency have been kidnapped by insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Mardin, in the mainly

Kurdish southeast, the Hurriyet newspaper and other Turkish media reported on Sunday. 

No other information was immediately available.

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