Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday of cowing local news media into self-censorship after a journalists’ group said dozens of reporters had been fired for their coverage of antigovernment protests. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/world/europe/turkey-72-journalists-forced-out-for-covering-protests-union-says.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 The Turkish Journalists Union said at least 72 journalists had been fired or forced to take leave or had resigned in the past six weeks since the start of the unrest. “We are now facing a new period where the media is controlled by the government and the police and where most media bosses take orders from political authorities,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the CHP party. According to a report by his party, 64 journalists have been imprisoned.
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We wanna express our support to all the brave Turks fighting for their rights against the conservative Erdogan. Get him Atatürk-style guys! 😀
You can’t have freedom without a free press.
Journalists deserve special protections from government security apparatus.
They are the watchdogs of corruption. If they are being jailed and harassed that is an obvious sign of corruption. Righteousness must prevail!
You are absolutely right… It’s their job to check the ones in power. Without those checks it can get very very scary!
Not as scary as sad. Fight the wicked system!