Turkish Dissent

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Lockdown

“The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has waged one of the world’s biggest crackdowns on press freedom in recent history. Authorities have imprisoned journalists on a mass scale on terrorism or anti-state charges, launched thousands of other criminal prosecutions . . . .”

“CPJ has found highly repressive laws, particularly in the penal code and anti-terror law; a criminal procedure code that greatly favors the state; and a harsh anti-press tone set at the highest levels of government. Turkey’s press freedom situation has reached a crisis point.”

—Committee to Protect Journalists,“Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis,” October 2012
CPJ finds that some 76 Turkish journalists have been jailed this year to shut them up; criminal charges are pending against a reported 5,000 journalists, many of them Kurds.
[Image: Istanbul protest held against imprisonment of Turkish journalists. HURRIYET DAILY NEWS/Emrah GÜREL

• Editorial Comment: Just after the European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize, Turkey confirms that the squeaky wheel gets the thumb screws.

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