April 10, 2017
Musa Kart Faces Up To 29 Years In Prison
This seems like a pretty thorough write-up of the news that Musa Kart and the other jailed journalists from the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, taken into custody almost a half year ago now, now face lengthy jail sentences. Kart's is actually the seocnd most listed after a jailed chairperson of the publication. They are accused of being adherents of Fethullah Gulen, who led a failed coup last summer.
The article points out that the paper has published countless articles critical of Gulen and his group, while most international observers remain keenly critical of the entire fiasco, with over 100 journalists imprisoned and officials claiming it has nothing to do with past work critical of the sitting government. The cartoonist isn't allowed to draw as his colleagues aren't allowed to write; blank spaces continue to appear in the newspaper under their bylines.
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