Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic, says Yavuz Baydar
Hacks, hacking and propaganda: what’s happening to Turkey’s journalists?
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Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar
Yavuz Baydar is the co-founder of Platform for Independent Journalism (P24), an initiative to support and promote editorial independence in the Turkish press. He is a veteran Turkish columnist and blogger and was awarded the Special Award of the European Press Prize in 2014.
Turkey’s media: A polluted landscape
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