Turkey Slapped for Ironic Chilling of Press
By ADAM KLASFELD
(CN) - Turkish courts should not have fined a writer roughly $5,700 for two scathing editorials that criticized the prosecution of journalists by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.
Erbil Tusalp, 67, has written several books and contributes columns to the daily newspaper Birgün, two of which landed him in the government's crosshairs.
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