Turkish press being smothered under pressure, censorship
Riot police detain Ivan Watson, CNN Turkey correspondent, in Taksim Square during his live reporting in Istanbul, Turkey, May 31, 2014. (Photo: AP)
July 24, 2014, Thursday/ 18:31:28/ TODAY'S ZAMAN / ISTANBUL
This week saw the 106th anniversary of the lifting of official censorship mechanisms over the press, but journalists across Turkey have said the country is not far from where it was more than a century ago in terms of press freedoms.
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