ISTANBUL—With nearly 20,000 people detained and arrests continuing, there is rising concern the crackdown in Turkey after the July 15 failed coup is expanding to government critics and opponents, especially in the media.
Twenty-nine journalists have been imprisoned since the coup, and arrest warrants have been issued for dozens more.
Journalist Cafer Solgun, who worked for one of the more than 100 media outlets closed in the crackdown, struggles to understand why people like him are targeted.
“It was the coup plotters who were blinded with madness to bomb the Turkish parliament and attempt to seize power. But what relations can me, Cafer Solgun, and dozens of other journalists like me have to do with it?” READ MORE OF THIS REPORT
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