How Turkey smothered a free press — and made arresting its journalists a weapon.
Press freedom has never been ideal in Turkey. But under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian reign, the country emerged as a top jailer of journalists. Independent and critical media are targets, while government censorship is on the rise.
Turkey’s story holds lessons about the fragility of democracy — and why a free press matters.
https://projects.voanews.com/turkey-breaking-the-silence/
Must-must-must listen: 'The Greatest Evil is War'
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By Chris Hedges https://t.co/ixxdo9Zliw
🚨🚨🚨 THIS IS GENOCIDE
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Over 2 million Palestinian people living trapped in Gaza are living through genocide in real time, as Israel horrifically bombs, starves, and displaces them.
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A doctor from Gaza : “These illegal weapons are used for the first time in Gaza and we have never seen it before. These weapons cause immediate 4th degree burns and we call to stop this now!" #Genocide_of_Palestinians #GenocideinGaza #EndIsraeliApartheid #ceasefireInGazaNOW🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/G2Iqd97k6x
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Israel is a terrorist state. Every person with any moral sense must work to sever the umbilical cord running from Washington, London, Paris + Berlin to the apartheid regime in Tel Aviv.
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) October 24, 2023
The genocide in Gaza would not be possible without our support.👇pic.twitter.com/hzUnAXGtlm
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A Jewish perspective on why you should NOT support #Israel. #GenocideinGaza #Gazagenocidehttps://t.co/YPZede9pRv
— Alternative Narrative (@AltNarr) October 25, 2023
John Pilger's 'The War You Don't See' (2011) is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
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