[Hurriyet Daily News] Daily Hurriyet cannot be silenced with politically motivated probes and attacks, Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kilicdaroglu has said."If the right to be informed is restricted in a country, then we can't talk about democracy in that country. Hurriyet is the most important newspaper in the world of the press. If the aim of this investigation is to silence Hurriyet and its writers, they should know that they are not powerful enough to accomplish it," Kilicdaroglu said during a live interview on private broadcaster CNNTurk late Sept. 16.
On Sept. 15, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into the Dogan Media Group, which owns daily Hurriyet, the Hurriyet Daily News, CNNTurk and a number of other media outlets, for "terrorist propaganda," after accepting a widely derided front-page story in pro-government tabloid Gunes published five days earlier as a criminal denunciation.