Media freedom remains major challenge in Turkey
Pandaya, The Jakarta Post, Istanbul | Sat, 06/16/2012 8:49 AM
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All of the 33 employees of Hedef Halk, a local newspaper in the Black Sea province of Samsun, Turkey, quit after the owner signed a protocol that would stop the newspaper from publishing reports about blackmail, theft, murder, suicide, traffic accidents, rape and sexual abuse. Luckily, the newspaper’s owner, Sabahattin Poyrazoglu, withdrew his signature from the protocol amid the employees’ protest, and the newspaper resumed publication.
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