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In Turkey, the enemies of freedom are winning. Crippling fines are
imposed on media that criticise the government, and laws criminalising
investigative journalism are used to arrest writers. The end result is
the erosion of independent media and a creeping culture of cronyism. A
recent report by English PEN, Journalism Under Siege, exposed the
gravity of the crisis facing press freedom in Turkey. In 2015, 30
journalists were in prison, and another hundred had been detained in
some way. Almost a thousand bans on publications were issued, and more
then 42,000 websites were banned."
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