"The Trouble with Turkey
By EMERSON VERMAAT
August 12, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Thomas Bruning, the general secretrary of the Netherlands Union of Journalists (NVJ), is rather pessimististic about press freedom in Turkey. In March alone, eight journalists were arrested in Turkey. Two prominent investigative journalists, namely Ahmed Sik and Nedim Sener, were among them. Some 60 Turkish journalists are in prison now, just because of what they wrote or on fake charges. 'In view of the persecution and intimidation of journalists and the lack of transparency questions can be raised about the state of Turkish democracy,' Bruning wrote in April (2011). 'In a country that calls itself democratic and wants to join the European Union, free reporting is essential. Press freedom is democracy's greatest good.'"
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