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Silencing Turkey’s Media: The Government’s Deepening Assault on Critical Journalism

December 2016 / (81 Pages)

The attacks on independent media after the attempted coup was defeated in July marked an intensification of a crackdown on media freedom that had already been going on for over a year. Censorship of journalism has been going on for much longer. The authorities use ever more creative ways to silence serious reporting and news coverage that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party government disagree with. Read More

 


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