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Turkey charges health workers with terror offences for treating a wounded child
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspects a military honour guard before addressing his supporters in Burs

FOUR health workers have been locked up on terrorism charges in Turkey for treating a 10-year-old child who was injured by security forces during a military curfew in 2015.

A doctor and three nurses were held on Monday after they attended a police station in Cizre in Turkey’s largely Kurdish south-east.

They were charged with “membership of a terrorist organisation” — namely the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) — and will appear in court at a later date.

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