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Turkish artist Bedri Baykam holds protest for Palestinian poet

Turkish artist Bedri Baykam held a press conference on Dec. 7 to protest Saudi Arabia's recent decision to sentence Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death.

Baykam, the president of the International Art Association (IAA), held the conference at Piramid Sanat in Istanbul's Taksim neighborhood to raise awareness about the impending execution.