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Press Freedom in the New Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Press Freedom in the New Turkey

By: Rasim Ozan Kutahyali for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 27.

Press freedom is a key issue for Turkey. After successfully eliminating the former militarist-Kemalist regime, Turkey is still starting down the road to a liberal democratic regime of which press freedom is an indispensable element. But as I emphasized in my first article for Al-Monitor, Turkey is now undergoing a post-Kemalist transition characterized by bizarre political alignments and in which everything is tangled with everything else.

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