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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Ending Turkey’s nightmare

"Ending Turkey’s nightmare

SONER ÇAĞAPTAY

The arrest of prominent journalists in Turkey on March 3, among them a recipient of the International Press Institute’s “World Press Freedom Hero” award, is the nail in the coffin for Turkey’s experiment with Islamists-turned-democrats. Included in the arrests was Ahmet Şık, a journalist whose work enabled the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, to launch the Ergenekon investigation in 2007 and pursue purported coup plotters. Şık was arrested for his alleged membership in Ergenekon. "

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