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Turkey bans pro-Kurdish daily in two provinces ANKARA, Sept 11 (AFP) Turkish authorities have banned the distribution of a new pro-Kurdish newspaper in two mainly Kurdish provinces under emergency rule, the daily said on Wednesday. Yeniden Ozgur Gundem, which was inaugurated last week, was banned in Diyarbakir and Sirnak in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast under provisions allowing emergency rule officials to prohibit printed material "to maintain security and public order." A member of its executive board, Delal Eren, told AFP the decision followed the publication of writings by jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whose Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has waged a 15-year war for Kurdish self-rule in the region. The daily said the ban contradicted Turkey's efforts to improve its democracy and advance its bid to join the European Union. The far-right Nationalist Action Party, a staunch opponent of Kurdish cultural freedoms, urged judicial authorities on Tuesday to take legal action against Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on the grounds that he turned a blind eye to alleged privileges Ocalan enjoyed in prison. The party said Ocalan was able to communicate orders to his supporters and statements to the press from his cell in the prison island of Imrali, in the Marmara sea south of Istanbul, where he is the sole inmate.
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