Wall Street Journal Runs Editorial from Erdogan—World’s Biggest Jailer of Journalists By Patrick Poole
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One-third of all journalists jailed worldwide sit in the prisons of Turkey’s Islamist autocrat, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
So it’s startling that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has opened up its opinion page to him today.
Remarkably, this comes after Turkey imprisoned WSJ reporter Dion Nissenbaum for two and a half days in December 2016, refusing to allow him to contact his colleagues or his family and later deporting him.
Then in October 2017, the Turkish regime convicted WSJ reporter Ayla Albayrak in absentia on charges of publishing “terrorist propaganda.”
And just today the Erdogan regime arrested another Western journalist:
Austrian journalist arrested in Turkey
Max Zirngast, an Austrian journalist, was detained by “anti-terror” authorities in Ankara according to one of the magazines he worked for. The report said he’d likely been detained for “political publications.”
Today’s Erdogan op-ed follows another New York Times op-ed by the Turkish dictator just a month ago — published on the same day the NYT editorial board questioned whether Turkey was still an American ally.
The bizarre love affair of the American corporate media continues as 169 journalists sit in Turkish prisons. CONTINUE AT SITE
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