Ahead of EU-Turkey summit, prospects of normalisation uncertain
Source:The Arab Weekly Date:11Mar2018
Even as Sik and Sabuncu left prison, courts in Turkey continued their crackdown on dissent. Also on March 9, Turkey’s top appeals court in Ankara ordered the retrial of Can Dundar, another former
Turkey’s latest trial of journalists is surreal even by its own standards
Source:The Economist Date:29Jul2017
The Economist covers the trial of Cumhuriyet staff: “Absurdly, the journalists are accused of abetting the Gulen movement, the very group many of them helped expose”.