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Freedom Of Press Suffers In Turkey

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2011 · People & Blogs

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CNN's Ivan Watson reports on the battle in Turkey to silence reporters by putting them in jail.

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EU opens new phase in Turkey membership bid talks (BBC, June 30, 2016)
http://bbc.in/298zQbw

Turkey charges press freedom activists with 'terrorist propaganda' (BBC, June 21, 2016)
http://bbc.in/28Ko1ql

Turkey regresses in RSF’s latest press freedom index (hurriyetdailynews, Apr 20, 2016)
http://bit.ly/1VBNqGi

How Washington Got Turkey's Dictator So Wrong (bloomberg, Mar 30, 2016)
http://bv.ms/22SCyaU

Turkish court 'orders Gollum study' in Erdogan case (BBC, Dec 1, 2015)
http://bbc.in/1HFu2T2

Turkish president Abdullah Gul on Syria and Islamophobia (thestar, Nov 28, 2012):
http://on.thestar.com/1TlFpmC
 "...But it's a quest that Gul still advocates as essential to keeping Turkey on the path to European liberal standards. At the same time, he's pained by the West's Islamophobia. "It's the same as anti-Semitism," he said. "It reminds us that while the West has high levels of education and income, it has diseases that are not easily curable ... "Islamophobia poses particular risks in today's globalized world. It can be costly as well as a menace to world peace, increase risks to the lives of ordinary people and complicate the world political situation. "Just like the world tackled anti-Semitism, we need to take measures to contain anti-Islamism..." 

Turkish court sentences ex-generals to 20 years for attempted coup (guardian, Sep 22 2012):
http://bit.ly/21UVP5C
"A Turkish court has sentenced three former generals to 20 years in prison on Friday for plotting a coup against the government, and convicted 330 of the 365 suspects in the so-called "Sledgehammer Coup" trial. The officers, all of who denied the charges against them, were accused of planning bomb attacks against mosques in Turkey to trigger conflict with neighbouring Greece in order to destabilise the country and justify a military coup against the Islamic AKP government. The Turkish military has traditionally played a dominant role in Turkish politics and staged coups in 1960, 1971, 1980 and 1997."

Turkey: Erdogan's party wants to limit press freedom (ansamed, July 13, 2012):
"The nationalist Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan has presented to Parliament a measure to limit freedom of the press protected under article 28 of the constitution, local media in Ankara reported.
Article 28 presently states that ''the press is free and must not be censored''. There are however limitations in the name of national security, public order and the republic's fundamental principles, the Milliyet newspaper noted. Under the new article proposed by the AKP to the commission drafting a constitutional reform, freedom of the press can be limited on a number of other accounts including 'public morality'. According to Milliyet, the proposal states that 'freedom of the press can be limited to protect national security, public order, public morality, other individual rights, privacy, to prevent crimes, safeguard impartiality and freedom of the judicial system, to prevent pro-war propaganda, discriminations and hate'. According to international media associations, some 100 journalists are currently detained in Turkey. According to the Vatan daily, the Nationalist Movement Party, the so-called Grey Wolves has presented a reform in the commission to reinstate the death penalty in Turkey."

Kemalism is dead, but not Ataturk
http://cnn.it/1q6uIcD
"Kemalism appears to have lost its influence, not just symbolically but also politically. In the past decade, Turkey has undergone a complete transformation. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won three consecutive elections since 2002, with increasing majorities. The AKP, representing a brand of Islam-based social conservatism, has since replaced Turkey's former Kemalist ideology and secular elites. Turkey seems to be moving to a post-Kemalist era."

Turkey arrests journalists in alleged terror plot
http://cnn.it/1TlFtmk
"Turkish police detained dozens of people in a wave of raids targeting suspected members of the "press and propaganda wing" of a banned Kurdish separatist group accused of committing acts of terrorism, the semi-official Anatolian Agency reported Tuesday. In a move that alarmed human rights organizations, journalists' associations and press freedom activists, police swept up a number of journalists in the raids."

Turkish journalists face judge in test of media freedom
http://cnn.it/1RAlewI

Turkey press freedom under fire
http://cnn.it/1VW3gKr
"The four-year investigation into an alleged plot to overthrow Turkey's government just keeps getting bigger. But as police arrest more and more journalists accused of aiding the coup plot, press freedoms groups are expressing alarm. With more than 50 reporters currently behind bars in Turkey..."

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