Turkish Media is Biased, and Not Just Towards Erdogan
Merve Tahiroglu
On July 21, Turkish journalist Yavuz Baydar published an article titled "In Turkey, Media Bosses are Undermining Democracy" in the New York Times. The following Tuesday, he was fired from Sabah, the daily newspaper in Turkey for which he was an ombudsman, proving the very point he had made in the article. Press freedom in Turkey has suffered greatly in the past decade for several reasons related to government policies. Baydar's article, however, highlights a much deeper problem with the freedom of press in Turkey that is related to its basic media model.
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