They are no longer numbers: photographs of journalists being taken away by the Turkish police

Published: July 30, 2016 at 7:48pm

Arrest warrants have been issued in Turkey for 89 journalists, and 40 of them have been detained by the police. Twenty-one of them were hauled to court under arrest yesterday, in a mass hearing that lasted until midnight. Four were let go but 17 have been charged with belonging to a terrorist group.

The Turkish government has used the ongoing ‘state of emergency’ to close down 130 newspapers, television stations, radio stations, publishers and news agencies.

Mahir Zeynalov, a Washington-based correspondent for Today’s Zaman, the English language version of the Turkish newspaper Zaman, has tweeted photographs showing police arresting some of these journalists yesterday. They are no longer numbers: seeing their faces and photographs of them being led away drives the grim reality home.

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