Turkey Detains Prominent Opposition Journalists – The New York Times

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Turkey Detains Prominent Opposition Journalists

The editor of the last remaining opposition newspaper was in custody, as were 12 writers and executives and a leading cartoonist.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/world/europe/turkey-arrests-cumhuriyet-journalists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Murat Sabuncu, the editor in chief of Cumhuriyet, Turkey’s oldest secularist newspaper, and at least 12 other executives and journalists from the daily were detained during early-morning police raids.