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Turkey has not convicted anyone for what they have written or what they have done as journalists, the senior adviser to Turkey鈥檚 president has said.

Gulnur Aybet was responding to reports that Turkey is the world leader in imprisoning journalists.

When a person is arrested in Turkey they have to fill out a form which includes details of their profession, Ms Aybet explained.

鈥淭here are people who have written in that form that their profession is 鈥榡ournalist鈥�, but they are not necessarily journalists,鈥� she said.

If journalists are in prison then they have been convicted of crimes not related to their profession, Ms Aybet suggested.