Publicly critical of the atrocious human rights record of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he was targeted by the prince's henchmen - a killing exposed by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In a recent BBC interview, an Erdogan stooge named Gulnur Aybet quibbled with a finding by the Committee to Protect Journalists that Turkey was No. 1 in the dubious category of imprisoning journalists.
If you think that is thin-skinned, four years ago Turkish cops carted a 16-year-old to jail for saying during a student protest that Erdogan was a thief.
Gulen is a convenient bogeyman for Erdogan, but what made the arrests of the Sözcü journalists so pernicious is that they detest Gulen.
Erdogan is so paranoid that in Turkey, the enemy of my enemy ismy enemy.
After a recent trip to New York for a U.N. meeting, Erdogan kicked off the opening of the Turkish school year with a speech saying that other world leaders also fear the media in their countries, adding that he considers democracy and a free press incompatible.
Which means that at some point, the United States and its allies must ask themselves difficult questions: Why is his country still in the EU? Does the existence of NATO airbases on Turkish soil - bases used in the U.S. war on terror - give Erdogan carte blanche?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/23/the_nato_country_where_journalism_is_a_crime_139008.html
In a recent BBC interview, an Erdogan stooge named Gulnur Aybet quibbled with a finding by the Committee to Protect Journalists that Turkey was No. 1 in the dubious category of imprisoning journalists.
If you think that is thin-skinned, four years ago Turkish cops carted a 16-year-old to jail for saying during a student protest that Erdogan was a thief.
Gulen is a convenient bogeyman for Erdogan, but what made the arrests of the Sözcü journalists so pernicious is that they detest Gulen.
Erdogan is so paranoid that in Turkey, the enemy of my enemy ismy enemy.
After a recent trip to New York for a U.N. meeting, Erdogan kicked off the opening of the Turkish school year with a speech saying that other world leaders also fear the media in their countries, adding that he considers democracy and a free press incompatible.
Which means that at some point, the United States and its allies must ask themselves difficult questions: Why is his country still in the EU? Does the existence of NATO airbases on Turkish soil - bases used in the U.S. war on terror - give Erdogan carte blanche?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/23/the_nato_country_where_journalism_is_a_crime_139008.html
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