Sunday, June 10, 2012

In Turkey the right to free speech is being lost | Mehdi Hasan | Comment is free | The Guardian

In Turkey the right to free speech is being lost

Erdogan is using a series of alleged plots to justify a crackdown on dissent that threatens basic freedoms

Which country in the world currently imprisons more journalists than any other? The People's Republic of China? Nope. Iran? Wrong again. The rather depressing answer is the Republic of Turkey, where nearly 100 journalists are behind bars, according to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Yes, that's right: modern, secular, western-oriented Turkey, with its democratically elected government, has locked away more members of the press than China and Iran combined.

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