March 8, 2016 — Yavuz Baydar, journalist and fall 2014 fellow, writes about the recent seizure of Zaman, Turkey’s largest daily newspaper, by the government. Zaman’s closure is the latest in a series of government actions against the press in Turkey – and should be a wakeup call to the EU about the state of press freedom in the country, argues Baydar. Read more in The Guardian.
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