Thursday, January 26, 2012

Erdogan Pledges ‘No Revenge’ as Turkish Press in Spotlight - Emerging Europe Real Time - WSJ

Erdogan Pledges ‘No Revenge’ as Turkish Press in Spotlight

By Ayla Albayrak

Turkey’s economy may have made giant leaps forward in 2011, but press freedoms appeared to take a significant step back. Scores of arrests and high-profile firings have fanned a growing international outcry that media freedoms here have been heavily compromised.

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