MEPs have decided that two Yazidi women are the winners of the EU’s annual human rights prize.<br /><br /> European Parliament Martin Schulz announced the winners in Strasbourg earlier.<br /><br /> Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar escaped enslavement by the so-called Islamic State in 2014.<br /><br /> The announcement avoids a potential clash with Turkey and worsening ties with Russia by not awarding the prize to either of the two other finalists.<br /><br /> Can Dundar is the former editor in chief of a Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, which was staunchly critical of the government.<br /><br /> Dundar was sentenced to six years in jail last May for allegedly revealing state secrets, but he left the country before his appeal was heard.<br /><br /> The other finalist was Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Ukrainian MP.<br /><br /> He has been barred from entering Crimea since its illegal annexation by Russia in 2014.<br />
