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  • Erdogan’s Turkey greets journalists with crackdown

    11/03/2012 4:58:06 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    Middle East Online ^ | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Fulya Ozerkan
    A record number of journalists are behind bars in Turkey as the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan wields draconian laws critics say are creating a climate of fear to silence dissenting voices and promote "pro-state" journalism. Erdogan's Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) is marking a decade in power boasting of political and economic reforms that have changed the face of the predominantly Muslim but staunchly secular nation. But it is under fire from rights groups about its escalating crackdown on the media, particularly Kurdish journalists. "The authorities are waging one of the world's biggest anti-press campaigns in...