"Turkey: No More (Or Not Much) Free Media
By Barry Rubin
Soner Cagaptay, perhaps the world's best analyst on contemporary Turkey, writes:
'Independent media outlets [in Turkey] receive daily calls from the prime minister's office to adjust their coverage to favor the AKP [the ruling Islamist party], lest they face punitive fines. Self-censorship is so rife that outlets now 'clean up' their acts without the need for AKP interference."
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