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		</div><p>Turkey&#8217;s main opposition party has started a 250-mile march from the capital to an Istanbul jail in protest over the imprisonment of one of its politicians.</p>
<p>The leader of the pro-secular Republican People&#8217;s Party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, called the &#8220;march for justice&#8221; after parliamentarian Enis Berberoglu was convicted to 25 years in prison for revealing state secrets.</p>
<p>Thousands of people set off on the march from Ankara, led by Mr Kilicdaroglu carrying a banner reading &#8220;Justice&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Kilicdaroglu said he wants justice, democracy and freedom in Turkey.<br />
<i>&#8220;Let the whole world hear, we are facing a dictatorial regime in Turkey, in our own land,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, an Istanbul court found Berberoglu, a former journalist, guilty on espionage charges.</p>
<p>His case stems from a 2015 story by the Cumhuriyet newspaper suggesting Turkey&#8217;s intelligence service had smuggled weapons to Islamist rebels in Syria.</p>
<p>Berberoglu was accused of giving journalists footage that showed local authorities searching Syria-bound trucks allegedly carrying mortar rounds and getting into a stand-off with Turkish intelligence officials.</p>
<p>Turkish leaders denied supporting Islamic rebels and said the trucks contained aid for Turkmens in Syria.</p>
<p>Can Dundar, Cumhuriyet&#8217;s then editor-in-chief, who is now abroad, and the paper&#8217;s Ankara representative, Erdem Gul, are also on trial on similar charges.</p>
<p>Separately, the three are being tried for &#8220;aiding a terror organisation without being members&#8221;, referring to the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating last summer&#8217;s bloody coup.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/turkeyprotestjune2017no2_large.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/turkeyprotestjune2017no2_large.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="325" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-113649" /></a></p>
<p>The prosecutor believes Mr Gulen&#8217;s network to be the source of the leaked images.</p>
<p>After the verdict, Mr Kilicdaroglu tweeted: <i>&#8220;In this country, the punishment for covering the news of a truck filled with weapons heading to terror groups is 25 years in prison but illegal arm shipments are allowed!&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Berberoglu is the first politician from the Republican People&#8217;s Party to be imprisoned since a constitutional amendment stripped parliamentary immunities last year.</p>
<p>A dozen pro-Kurdish politicians are already in prison for allegedly supporting terror and more than 50,000 people have been arrested for purported links to Mr Gulen.</p>
<p>Turkish media said the march would take two weeks, covering approximately 12 miles each day. Mr Kilicdaroglu is being escorted by his security detail.</p>
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