Assault of Ahmet Hakan is latest sign of deteriorating conditions for media under government of Recep Tayyip ErdoğanA prominent Turkish journalist has been attacked outside his domestic,his newspaper has said, in the latest sign of deteriorating conditions for the media under the president, or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ahmet Hakan,a columnist for Turkey’s main secular Hürriyet newspaper and a presenter on broadcaster CNN Turk, was followed domestic from the television station by four men in a black car late on Wednesday, and before being assaulted near his residence,according to the Hürriyet editor-in-chief, Sedat Ergin. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com