Zaman newspaper: Defiant last edition as Turkey police raid

[axelord157]

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[QUOTE][B]Turkey's biggest newspaper, Zaman, has condemned its takeover by the authorities in a defiant last edition published just before police raided it.[/B][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Police raided Zaman's Istanbul offices hours after a court ruling placed it under state control, but managers were still able to get the edition to print.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]A number of the journalists returned to work, but some of them tweeted that:

> they had lost access to internal servers and were not able to file articles

> they were not able to access their email accounts

>the newspaper's editor-in-chief Abdulhamit Bilici and a leading columnist had been fired
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[Rangergxi]

History repeats itself.

For whatever reason people have developed this idea that modern democracy's can't fall to Tyranny but here we have yet another example.

[draugur]

Turkey, a modern democracy? Ahahaha. Good one. Turkey's as much a "modern" democracy as Russia or India is. I.E. any votes are hardly more than a measure to keep the population docile with the illusion that they have some form of control over anything.

It's just that now because it's no longer the popular narrative to ignore Turkey's atrocities because it doesn't suit the post 9-11 narrative anymore (now that the USSR doesn't have missiles in Cuba, etc.).

[Spazi]

Turkey is a fuck.

Intuitively I would want NATO and the rest of the western world cut ties with it before they do something stupid.

However to avoid human losses and destabilization, keeping ties with them seems to be the only way to stop them from doing something stupid.