Turkey: Debasing the free press? - The Listening Post (Lead)
Amid a military campaign grappling Kurdish fighters in the southeast and the armed group ISIL, critics of the AK party have accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of drowning out opposition voices and trying to control the media message. Erdogan insists his country's media is the freest in the world, however, a series of high-profile raids into Turkish media groups hostile to the government has seen some of the biggest media crackdowns in the country's history.
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