[AnNahar] Staff from one of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's most respected opposition newspapers on Monday rejected as absurd "terror" charges against them on the first day of a trial which has intensified alarm over press freedom under President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
The 17 defendants from the Cumhuriyet daily were detained from October last year and a dozen of them have now spent more than eight months in jail without being convicted of any crime.