Turkey - RSF backs newspaper under attack from President Erdogan

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Turkish government pressure on the newspaper Cumhuriyet, which is under judicial investigation for publishing alleged evidence that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MIT) delivered arms to Islamist rebels in Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today accused Cumhuriyet editor Can Dündar of “spying” and vowed that he “won't get away with it.” Already the subject of a prosecution for reprinting the cover of the Charlie Hebdo “survivors issue” in (...)

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