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Turkey protesters slam jailing of journalists
[AlAhram] Turkish journalists and opposition politicians protested in Istanbul Saturday against the detention of news hounds, as a crackdown on the media has accelerated after the failed coup against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
"Journalism is not a crime" and "We will not remain silent," chanted the crowd of some 50 people,
...an utterly symbolic protest, then, which will have at best absolutely no effect....
who railed against the conditions the journalists are held in.

"Many placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 journalists are not allowed to receive letters under the state of emergency conditions," said Baris Yarkadas, an opposition politician with the Republican People's Party.

Yarkadas added he hoped the government would lift the ban. In a gesture of protest, the demonstrators mailed cards to their detained colleagues.
...thus adding themselves to the list for Erdogan's next round of Gulenist arrests,
The Turkish government imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the failed July 15 coup attempt aiming to oust Erdogan, which critics say has been used for a massive clampdown on Erdogan's opponents and not merely suspected coup plotters.

According to journalists' associations, about 170 media outlets have been closed and nearly 800 press cards cancelled.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 has also detained or expelled foreign correspondents for The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, The Wall Street Journal, Die Welt, and the French website Les Jours.

More than 100 journalists and media contributors are in jail, said Reporters Without Borders in a December report, which said the country led a rise in journalist detentions in 2016.

"The number of detained professional journalists in Turkey has risen 22 percent after quadrupling in the wake of the failed coup d'etat in July," it said.

Last month's detention of Deniz Yucel, 43, a German journalist for the Die Welt daily on terrorism-related charges has strained relations between Ankara and Berlin.

"Deniz Yucel is a professional, he is known to be a very good journalist," Fatih Polat, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Evrensel, told AFP.

"We will give any kind of support for his and other placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 journalists' release," he said.
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