Two Turkish newspapers critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed to appear on Thursday, a day after riot police stormed their sister television stations and forced them off air.
The action has provoked alarm among Turkey's Western allies and global rights groups over the state of media freedom just days before the country's most crucial election in years.
Riot police firing tear gas and water cannon stormed the Istanbul offices of two television stations linked to a bitter Erdogan rival and pulled the plug Wednesday, triggering brawls with staff and demonstrations in Istanbul.
The spectacular raids targeted the media operations of the multi-billion dollar Kozi-Ipek conglomerate, which is accused of financing US-exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, a one-time Erdogan ally turned arch-foe.
The group's two stations, Bugun TV and KanalTurk, remain off air while its two newspapers, Bugun and Millet, were prevented from appearing Thursday after court-appointed administrators moved in.
Millet published the front page of what would have been its Thursday edition on Twitter with a photograph of a bloodied press card and the headline "A bloody putsch"...
AFP
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29/10/15
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The action has provoked alarm among Turkey's Western allies and global rights groups over the state of media freedom just days before the country's most crucial election in years.
Riot police firing tear gas and water cannon stormed the Istanbul offices of two television stations linked to a bitter Erdogan rival and pulled the plug Wednesday, triggering brawls with staff and demonstrations in Istanbul.
The spectacular raids targeted the media operations of the multi-billion dollar Kozi-Ipek conglomerate, which is accused of financing US-exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, a one-time Erdogan ally turned arch-foe.
The group's two stations, Bugun TV and KanalTurk, remain off air while its two newspapers, Bugun and Millet, were prevented from appearing Thursday after court-appointed administrators moved in.
Millet published the front page of what would have been its Thursday edition on Twitter with a photograph of a bloodied press card and the headline "A bloody putsch"...
AFP
dailystar.com.lb
29/10/15
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Related:
- Istanbul police used force on -Oct. 28- to enter the headquarters and seize control of media outlets owned by the Koza-İpek Group, dramatically breaking into the main broadcasting room and shutting down two TV stations owned by the group...
- Sixty-five members of the US Congress have asked President Barack Obama in a letter to encourage Turkey to take all necessary measures to ensure that elections slated for Nov. 1 are held in a "truly free" environment...
Turquie: après deux télévisions, deux journaux d'opposition empêchés de paraître ...
ReplyDeleteDeux quotidiens turcs proches de l'opposition n'ont pu paraître jeudi au lendemain du spectaculaire assaut policier contre deux télévisions du même groupe qui a ravivé les critiques contre le président Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a rapporté un de leurs responsables.
Les journaux Bugün et Millet font partie du groupe de médias Ipek-Koza, comme les chaînes Bugün TV et Kanaltürk, contraintes, mercredi, d'interrompre leur diffusion.
"Nous avions bouclé notre journal à 15H00 (mercredi) et à 17H00 il était à l'imprimerie", a raconté le rédacteur en chef de Bugün, Erhan Basyurt, mercredi soir à la télévision. "Ils ont temporisé en prétextant des problèmes techniques jusqu'à 21h. Puis ils nous ont dit qu'on ne pourrait pas être imprimés, qu'il y avait une interdiction écrite", a-t-il ajouté.
Erhan Basyurt a été licencié avec deux reporters du quotidien Bugün jeudi matin, a rapporté le journal Zaman.
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Le quotidien Millet a partagé sur son compte Twitter la "une" de l'édition qui aurait dû paraître jeudi : la photo de la carte de presse ensanglantée de l'un de ses journalistes sous le titre "un putsch sanglant".
Mercredi à l'aube, des policiers en tenue antiémeute avaient pris d'assaut en direct devant les caméras le siège stambouliote des chaînes Bugün TV et Kanaltürk et des journaux Millet et Bugün, dont la maison-mère avait fait l'objet lundi d'une mise sous tutelle judiciaire..............http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_turquie-apres-deux-televisions-deux-journaux-d-opposition-empeches-de-paraitre?id=9121997