ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has jailed two teachers who have been on hunger strike for more than two months protesting against a government crackdown in which they lost their jobs after last year's failed coup, their lawyer said on Tuesday.
The detention of the two - literature professor Nuriye Gulmen and primary school teacher Semih Ozakca - led to protests on Tuesday in which police fired tear gas at pockets of demonstrators in Ankara and Istanbul and detained at least a dozen people.
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