Turkey is world’s leading jailer of journalists
It is unfortunate that the author of the comment piece “Why protect rights of journalists?”, published in your paper on September 25, did not contact the CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists) prior to publication.
We would have been able to explain our methodology to Turkmen Terzi and provide him with more up-to-date statistics than the 2012 figures he cited for the number of journalists jailed in Turkey for their journalism.
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