Why are pro-AKP Twitter users targeting female journalists?
The shrinking media freedom in Turkey is in danger of becoming gender-specific. Female journalists critical of government policies who appear on TV seem to be specifically at risk of retaliation. Ceyda Karan of the daily Cumhuriyet is the latest target of a smear campaign after her appearance Aug. 20 on a CNN Turk news talk show. Although she did not say that those supporting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are stupid, Cetiner Cetin, a male co-panelist who writes for the pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) Islamic daily Yeni Safak, twisted her expressions to make it sound that way.
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