In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels walk next to a cannon that was captured with other weapons from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)
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In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels walk next to a cannon that was captured with other weapons from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)
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In this picture taken on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, Citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels, center, stand next to weapons that were captured from the 46th Regiment base which was a major pillar of the government's force, near the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian Rebels on Monday captured a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River in the country's north after days of heavy clashes, carting off boxes of ammunition and notching the latest in a string of recent strategic advances for opposition fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Idlib News Network ENN)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, the Union of Syria’s Victory Battalions prepare a rocket in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Colonel Abu al-Furat, commander of the battle of the trenches revolutionaries, third left, speaks in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian rebel fires his weapon during clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria on Monday, Nov. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Syrian rebel fires his weapon during clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Colonel Abu al-Furat, commander of the battle of the trenches revolutionaries, second left, speaks in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, a U.S. soldier stands next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland. Turkey's government requested the deployment of NATO's Patriot surface-to-air missiles on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012 to bolster its defenses along its border with Syria and prevent a spillover of the civil war in that nation, officials said. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
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In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 photo, protesters stage a rally as thousands of Turks demonstrate to condemn terrorism in Ankara, Turkey. A Turkish official said Kurdish rebels have attacked security posts in the town of Beytussebap, Turkey, near the border with Iraq late Sunday, Sept. 2, killing nine security personnel. There has been a surge in rebel attacks in recent months. The banner reads: "We don't want The PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) at the parliament." (AP Photo)
Report: Turkish lawyers jailed for militant links
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state-run news agency says a court has charged nine lawyers, including prominent human rights defenders, with membership in an outlawed leftist militant group and ordered them arrested pending trial.
The lawyers were detained last week in a nationwide police crackdown on people allegedly linked to the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, which advocates a Marxist state and has claimed responsibility for a number of assassinations and bombings since the 1970s. The group has been relatively quiet in recent years.
Close to 70 other people also were detained for questioning in the sweep.
Anadolu Agency said the lawyers charged Monday include Selcuk Kozagacli, head of a lawyers' association.
Human rights groups frequently accuse Turkey of using its broad-based anti-terrorism laws to jail activists and journalists and of curbing freedoms.
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