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Turkish media denounce 'biggest crackdown on press in republic’s history'
Source: The Guardian
Turkish media denounce 'biggest crackdown on press in republic’s history'
Kareem Shaheen and Şafak Timur in Istanbul
Thursday 29 October 2015 19.44 GMT
Turkish media are coming under what local journalists have described as one of the worst crackdowns in the republic’s history in the run-up to crucial parliamentary elections that may put an end to over a decade of single-party rule by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development party (AKP).
Journalists critical of Erdoğan or government policies have been fired from newspapers seen as close to the president and even assaulted, while offices of pro-opposition media outlets have been raided in what observers say is a broad campaign to intimidate voices demanding change and accountability in Ankara.
“It’s the biggest crackdown on press in Turkish history,” said Tarık Toros, the editor-in-chief of the television station Bugün, which on Wednesday was taken off the air by security officers during a raid, with Toros taking refuge in the station’s control room before being forced out by police.
Runoff parliamentary elections in Turkey are scheduled for 1 November, after a vote in June ended the AKP’s absolute majority in the legislature but coalition talks with the main opposition, the Republican People’s party (CHP), failed.
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Kareem Shaheen and Şafak Timur in Istanbul
Thursday 29 October 2015 19.44 GMT
Turkish media are coming under what local journalists have described as one of the worst crackdowns in the republic’s history in the run-up to crucial parliamentary elections that may put an end to over a decade of single-party rule by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development party (AKP).
Journalists critical of Erdoğan or government policies have been fired from newspapers seen as close to the president and even assaulted, while offices of pro-opposition media outlets have been raided in what observers say is a broad campaign to intimidate voices demanding change and accountability in Ankara.
“It’s the biggest crackdown on press in Turkish history,” said Tarık Toros, the editor-in-chief of the television station Bugün, which on Wednesday was taken off the air by security officers during a raid, with Toros taking refuge in the station’s control room before being forced out by police.
Runoff parliamentary elections in Turkey are scheduled for 1 November, after a vote in June ended the AKP’s absolute majority in the legislature but coalition talks with the main opposition, the Republican People’s party (CHP), failed.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/turkish-media-denounce-biggest-crackdown-on-press-in-republics-history
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