April 28, 2011

Censorship in the Turkish media

İhsan Yılmaz

The anti-AK Party bloc has discovered a few new weapons against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the alleged AK Party censorship of the Turkish media is one them.

Freedom of the press is one of the crucial pillars of democracy and all democratic states, civil society institutions and individuals are rightly sensitive about this issue. After observing that even the EU officials who are well aware of Turkish facts and realities were negatively influenced by the huge media campaign against the AK Party, which insisted that freedom of the press is in danger in Turkey, it seems that the anti-AK Party bloc will continue to wield this newly devised tool.