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CPJ SLAMS TURKEY'S REPRESSION OF JOURNALISTS
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
YEREVAN
The Committee to Protect Journalists has posted its annual report on
press repression around world, entitled "Attacks on the Press 2011,"
Armenpress reports citing Asbarez.
CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney, chronicles press repressions in
Turkey saying "The press is laboring under a creaking judicial system
and a panoply of antiquated and vague legislation that officials and
politicians of every stripe find irresistible as a weapon against
muckraking reporters and critical commentators."
In "Discarding Reform, Turkey Uses the Law to Repress," Mahoney also
chides the US for not vocally voicing concerns over press freedoms
in Turkey.
"The United States seems wary of calling out Turkey on its human
rights and press freedom record. Washington is comfortable with the
narrative that Turkey, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally in the
region, is a progressive, secular democracy and a model of free speech
compared with its neighbors Iran, Iraq, and Syria," says Mahoney who
says Ankara's diplomatic maneuvering has put it "on the right side"
of the Arab Spring.
ARMENPRESS
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
YEREVAN
The Committee to Protect Journalists has posted its annual report on
press repression around world, entitled "Attacks on the Press 2011,"
Armenpress reports citing Asbarez.
CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney, chronicles press repressions in
Turkey saying "The press is laboring under a creaking judicial system
and a panoply of antiquated and vague legislation that officials and
politicians of every stripe find irresistible as a weapon against
muckraking reporters and critical commentators."
In "Discarding Reform, Turkey Uses the Law to Repress," Mahoney also
chides the US for not vocally voicing concerns over press freedoms
in Turkey.
"The United States seems wary of calling out Turkey on its human
rights and press freedom record. Washington is comfortable with the
narrative that Turkey, a NATO member and crucial U.S. ally in the
region, is a progressive, secular democracy and a model of free speech
compared with its neighbors Iran, Iraq, and Syria," says Mahoney who
says Ankara's diplomatic maneuvering has put it "on the right side"
of the Arab Spring.