Journalists who run afoul of the Turkish government are getting slapped with lawsuits and potential jail time at alarming rates. As The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports from Istanbul, the government is using so-called anti-terrorism laws to rein in reporters who refuse to toe the party line.
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