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Turkey’s parliament on Thursday adopted a law proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that would jail journalists and social media users for up to three years for spreading “disinformation”, despite deep concerns over free speech. Lawmakers from Erdogan’s ruling AK Party (AKP) and its nationalist allies MHP, which together have a majority, voted to approve the bill even as opposition MPs, European countries and media rights activists have called to scrap it. The law’s Article 29 raised the most concerns over free expression. It says those who spread false information online about Turkey’s s…