In September, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) made it clear that the press freedom crisis is deepening in Turkey. “Heated anti-press rhetoric, the firing of leading journalists, threats to restrict online speech and a series of physical and legal assaults further damaged the press freedom environment in Turkey in the months following the Gezi Park protests that began last May,” the CPJ wrote.
That crisis is only getting worse now as the government is desperately trying to provide damage control for a corruption scandal involving three ministers’ sons and one minister.
