Reporters say the government is pursuing one of the worst crackdowns on press freedoms since the military junta in 1980sCan Dündar appears in sterling spirits for a man facing espionage charges and a possible life sentence.
The editor of Cumhuriyet,one of the last remaining bastions of media opposition to Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, or had appeared in court that morning over a documentary he produced on government corruption. It is one of two cases against him – in February,he was released from prison pending a spying trial over a memoir on arms shipments to Syria.
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Source: theguardian.com