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Turkey:
Arrest order for director of childrens’ choir
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Three teenagers, members of Diyarbakir Yenişehir Council Childrens' Choir, were on trial on 19 June 2008 over performing a march-song in Kurdish at a concert in the United States. The Turkish court acquitted them, but at the same time issued an arrest order for the director of the choir, Duygu Bayar, who is still in USA, reported Antenna Turkey.
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“A new prosecutor in the court in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir said there was no criminal case for the three teenagers, aged 15 to 17, to answer,” BBC News reported. “The judge agreed, saying the children had not intended to commit a crime.”
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