Turkey - Seizure and destruction of Ahmet Sik's unpublished book: "a very dangerous precedent"

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the seizure and destruction of all known copies of the last unpublished draft copy of a book by Ahmet Sik. This work, which explores the relationship between the police and the influential Islamic “Gülen Movement,” is said to contain revelations about the “Ergenekon” antiterrorist trial, which has tainted Turkish political life for years. Not content with preventing its publication and throwing the author into jail, the Turkish judicial authorities (...)

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