Turkey’s Imprisoned Press

For several years, Turkey’s human-rights situation had been improving dramatically under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership. But, as Erdoğan and his moderate Islamic party have consolidated their power, their tolerance for dissent has declined, and dozens of journalists have been jailed for their work.

PARIS – According to two pro-government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are “terrorists.” That is the term that they were using last week to denounce the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières, both of which have issued reports saying that Turkey has imprisoned even more journalists than Iran and China.

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