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TURKISH police rounded up 18 academics yesterday in a crackdown on opposition to war with Kurdish separatists.

The Anadolu news agency said 15 academics from Kocaeli University in north-western Turkey and three from Uludag University in the neighbouring province of Bursa were detained for questioning.

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