According to two progovernment newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, and to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are "terrorists."
That is the term that they were using the week before last to denounce the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontières, both of which have issued reports saying that Turkey has imprisoned even more journalists than Iran and China.
Last October, the CPJ reported that there were 76 journalists imprisoned in Turkey, including 61 who were in jail for their journalistic work. While the latter number declined to 49 by December, after some of those held were freed by the courts, that is still a lot of journalists to hold in prison.
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