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My sacking is an attack not just on journalism, but on Turkish democracy | Yavuz Baydar | Comment is free | The Guardian

My sacking is an attack not just on journalism, but on Turkish democracy

Turkey needs freedom of expression more than ever. Erdoğan's clampdown could stop dead our transition to a liberal democracy

Yavuz Baydar
The Guardian, Monday 29 July 2013 20.30 BST

Last week I was fired from my job as independent ombudsman for the Turkish daily newspaper Sabah, following the censoring of my column.

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