“Democracy Ends In Turkey”: Prominent Anti-Erdogan Newspaper Seized In Midnight Raid

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/05/2016

Overnight both freedom of press, and democracy officially died in Turkey, with time of death just before midnight, when Turkish authorities stormed the Zaman daily, a newspaper staunchly opposed to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and after using tear gas and water cannon they seized its headquarters in a dramatic raid that raised fresh alarm over declining media freedoms.

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