Turkey - Wave of searches and arrests of investigative journalists

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by yesterday's wave of searches and arrests of investigative journalists in Istanbul and Ankara in connection with a probe into an alleged anti-government plot. Journalists who have helped to shed light on this case are being made to pay for the tension between the government and the secularist and ultra-nationalist opposition. “We deplore the repeated use of the charge of ‘membership of a terrorist organization' to go after reporters who are just doing (...)

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