Nadire Mater, Faruk Balikci, Yildirim Turker and Tugrul Eryilmaz, who were guest editors at pro-Kurdish daily Ozgur Gundem, are pictured with their fellow journalists before they appear at a court for testimony, outside the Justice Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
ANKARA (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Turkey on Tuesday to compensate the owner of a Kurdish newspaper that was shut down in 2016, after finding that criminal proceedings had been "systematically opened" against it.
The closure of daily Ozgur Gundem, for what the Turkish court that ordered it said was spreading propaganda in favour of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), came shortly after the abortive coup in Turkey in July 2016.
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