Four reporters have been released, but dozens more are still being detained.

Playing with fire: Journalism in Turkey

Members of the Turkish press rejoiced when four of their colleagues, incarcerated for over a year, were released by the government. The crime? Writing. No, wait. How silly of me. Writing isn’t a crime in secular, NATO-member, democratic societies governed by the rule of law. Let me rephrase that. The crime was writing against the regime. The key word in that last sentence is, of course, the one before the period. Regime.

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