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October 25, 2012

Turkey's War on Journalists

Michael Koplow, The Atlantic

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The October 22 report on Turkey issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) is getting lots of attention, and rightly so. Amid the growing clamor over Turkey's media crackdown, the CPJ slammed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government for jailing (by its count) 76 journalists, 61 of whom are in prison as a direct result of their writing or reporting, mainly on Kurdish issues.

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TAGGED: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, journalist , Journalism, Turkey

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