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   in reply to

   "The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world's largest journalists' union, strongly condemned the killing of two Kurdish journalists, Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin [...]"
   https://anfenglish.com/freedom-of-the-press/ifj-secretary-general-we-have-a-duty-to-give-justice-to-the-murdered-journalists-76981

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     News agency ANHA on Turkey drone-murdering two of its journalists south of Kobane/Kobani in the autonomous North and East Syria ("Rojava") on December 19
     https://hawarnews.com/en/2-of-our-journalist-colleagues-martyred-in-turkish-occupation-shelling
     On the journalists:
     Cîhan Bîlgîn
     https://hawarnews.com/en/journalist-cihan-bilgin
     Nazim Dashtan
     https://hawarnews.com/en/journalist-nazim-dashtan

     The work they were murdered for doing, journalism:
     "Cîhan Bîlgîn, Nazim Dashtan expose Turkish occupation's crimes"
     https://hawarnews.com/en/cihan-bilgin-nazim-dashtan-expose-turkish-occupations-crimes

     "Rule 34. Civilian journalists engaged in professional missions in areas of armed conflict must be respected and protected as long as they are not taking a direct part in hostilities" (journalism is NOT "taking direct part in hostilities" by any definition)
     https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule34

     "Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria condemned the cowardly crime committed by the Turkish occupying state"
     https://hawarnews.com/en/aanes-demands-protection-for-journalists-from-turkish-occupation-crimes

     This is a continuation of Turkey's clear intentional and systematic past targeting of several journalists for working in the armed conflict area, similar to how it has been bombing mosques, water treatment plants, electricity generation, UN-affiliated school, hospitals, etc, etc.