{"id":347,"date":"2016-11-05T21:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-11-05T21:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T04:37:39","slug":"turkish-police-clash-with-protesters-over-freedom-of-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Turkish police clash with protesters over freedom of speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey, November 5 &#8212; Turkish police forces have clashed with estimated 1000 people who marched\u00a0on the headquarters of the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper (<em>translated &#8220;The Republic&#8221;, via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cumhuriyet\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>). Earlier the government investigators arrested nine people at the newspaper alleging &#8220;terrorism&#8221; with connection to PKK which is outlawed in Turkey, reports Hurriyet Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia and secondary source news agency for this story Hurriyet Daily News\u00a0<em>Cumhuriyet<\/em> is &#8220;the one of the oldest and most respected newspapers&#8221; in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The protest started as the Turkish people are becoming increasingly terrified of the government assaults on the freedom of press after the failed government coup.<\/p>\n<p>German news agency Deutsche Welle reports that approximately 170 newspapers, magazines and TV stations have been closed since July (a result of current government).<\/p>\n<p>Read full articles at\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dw.com\/p\/2SDXM\" target=\"_blank\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/em> and the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/nine-arrested-in-probe-on-daily-cumhuriyet-.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nID=105743&amp;NewsCatID=339\" target=\"_blank\">Hurriyet Daily News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our possible interpretation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult for us to make comments on this issue because not many complete facts are known to us. What is known and is a fact that the Turkish government is on a full assault mode arresting anyone and everyone (particularly in Turkish press and academia) under accusations of &#8220;terrorism&#8221; related to\u00a0<em>PKK <\/em>and others.<\/p>\n<p>Mentioned earlier German news agency Deutsche Welle itself fell a bit of a victim to illegal treatment of its own interview crew a month prior.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that the Turkish news agency Hurriyet Daily News is not next in line for the political guillotine.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom of speech and press is one of the most important and fundamental freedoms a human being can have. Speech and writing are the direct bridge\u00a0to expression of one&#8217;s thinking, one&#8217;s thoughts. To destroy that bridge is to imprison the individual within his own mind. Mind-imprison enough within a nation then the final likely outcome is the collapse of the self-imprisoned nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul, Turkey, November 5 &#8212; Turkish police forces have clashed with estimated 1000 people who marched\u00a0on the headquarters of the Cumhuriyet daily newspaper (translated &#8220;The Republic&#8221;, via Wikipedia). Earlier the government investigators arrested nine people at the newspaper alleging &#8220;terrorism&#8221; with connection to PKK which is outlawed in Turkey,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}