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We Are Arrested - A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison (Hardcover)
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We Are Arrested - A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison (Hardcover)
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List price R470
Loot Price R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
You Save R116 (25%)
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Following the dramatic events of July 2016, the global spotlight
has fallen on Turkey's increasingly authoritarian government, led
by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. International observers fear the
attempted coup has given Erdogan, already known for his attacks on
press freedom, an excuse to further suppress all opposition.In
November 2015, Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the national
Cumhuriyet newspaper, was arrested on charges of espionage, helping
a terrorist organisation, trying to topple the government and
revealing state secrets. His transgression? Publishing photographic
evidence of a highly illegal covert arms shipment by the Turkish
secret service to radical Islamist organisations fighting
government forces in Syria - a crime that was in the government's
interest to conceal, and a journalist's duty to expose.Arraigned by
the President himself, who called for Dundar to receive two life
sentences, he was held in solitary confinement in Turkey's Silivri
Prison for three months while awaiting trial.We Are Arrested is
Dundar's enthralling account of the newspaper's decision to publish
and the events that unfolded as a result - including would-be
suicide bombings, assassination attempts and fierce attacks from
pro-government media - as well as the time he served behind bars
for defending the public's right to know.
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