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Turkey raids critical media group after British reporters jailed

Turkish police on Tuesday staged a major swoop on the Ankara-based offices of a media group critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after two British reporters were jailed on hugely controversial terror charges.

The raids on Koza-Ipek Media sparked fresh concern about deteriorating press freedoms on Turkey, which is gearing up for a snap November legislative election, its second in five months.

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