Turkey election: Press freedom is 'most sensitive issue'

Turkey's governing AK Party has highlighted the measures it has taken to help the country's Kurdish minority as a way of attracting their votes in the 7 June election.

The state broadcaster now has a channel in Kurdish and a Kurdish newspaper has been made legal. However, this has not helped the government's record on press freedom, heavily criticised both in Turkey and abroad.

The BBC's Selin Girit repots from Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir.

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