What's next for Turkey's journalists following post-coup crackdown?

Cengiz Candar

Sep 1, 2016

A journalist of pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem gives an interview to a German TV channel at their newsroom before a protest against the arrest of three prominent campaigners for press freedom, in front of the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newspaper in central Istanbul, Turkey, June 21, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RTX2HD1N — A journalist of the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem gives an interview to a German TV channel in the paper's newsroom before a protest against the arrest of three prominent campaigners for press freedom, Istanbul, Turkey, June 21, 2016. — REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Aug. 30 is the date of the decisive victory won against the invading Greek force in 1922 that led to the foundation of the Republic of Turkey a year later. Since then, every year, Aug. 30 is a national holiday celebrated as “Holiday of Victory.” In effect, it is “Army Day.”

This year, because of the trauma of the failed July 15 coup attempt, military parades in the major cities of Turkey and celebratory cocktail receptions in the country and abroad did not take place.