I saw an eye-opening talk last year from a Turkish newspaper editor now living here in exile. Abdülhamit Bilici would be jailed at best if he were still in Turkey.
Country has gone from being a quasi-Democracy (his words) to a complete autocracy in the last several years. He was editor of the largest Turkish newspaper, Zaman, circulation ~1,000,000, until it was taken over by the government a couple years ago now, and ultimately shut down.
The video he had of the takeover of Zaman was quite sobering. This is what totalitarianism looks like.
http://youtu.be/9fN9bqOlaKM?rel=0
Yay, Erdogan. It’s time to kick Turkey out of NATO.
Story on the newspaper’s takeover from a 2 years ago.
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2016-03-05/turkish-newspaper-seized-by-government/
Thank you. It is clear that all “reporting” done in Turkey is nothing more than State Propaganda.
And note that Erdogan had endorsed dictator Modura in Venezuela before he stole his re-election in May. Birds of a Feather?