{"id":68659,"date":"2013-03-24T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T09:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=68659"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:01:17","slug":"turkeys-voting-for-censors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/24\/turkeys-voting-for-censors\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s voting for censors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\">A leading columnist has been frozen out of his newspaper for revealing details of secret government talks with the PKK<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-attributes trackable-component b4\" style=\"padding: 2px 0px 12px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-collapse: collapse; list-style-type: none; border-color: #d61d00; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25; position: relative; overflow: hidden; min-height: 66px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\" data-component=\"Article:byline\">\n<li id=\"contrib-shift\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; position: absolute; left: 70px; top: 5px; overflow: hidden; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; list-style-type: none; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<li class=\"byline\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; overflow: visible; display: block; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<div class=\"contributor-full\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"><span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: bold; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"><span itemprop=\"name\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\"><span style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">Peter Preston<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"publication\" style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; overflow: hidden; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\"><span style=\"color: #005689;\"><span style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">The Observer<\/span><\/span>,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68660\" alt=\"Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal (front) o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Turkish-journalist-Hasan-010.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Turkish-journalist-Hasan-010.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Turkish-journalist-Hasan-010-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hasan Cemal: now persona non grata at one of Turkey&#8217;s leading newspapers. Photograph: Cem Turkel\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a foreign field: Hasan Cemal, former battling Turkish editor (against military juntas), is now the former star columnist for Milliyet, one of Turkey&#8217;s great newspaper names. He&#8217;s &#8220;stepped down&#8221;, in the twisty vernacular. What happened? Milliyet published secret minutes of contacts between government emissaries and Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish terrorist group the PKK. Turkey&#8217;s PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet. Hasan, pictured, wrote a column defending the story. But the PM carried on erupting. &#8220;If this is journalism, down with it!&#8221; he cried.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan&#8217;s column was frozen out for two weeks and then blanket-refused for publication. As he said: &#8220;I had underlined a fundamental principle of my profession \u2026 I argued that journalism and ruling a country are separate issues, and underscored the dividing line that sets them apart. This was what I was saying in a nutshell: In democracies, politicians rule the country and journalists deal with their\u00a0work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey&#8217;s voting for censors | Media | The Observer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading columnist has been frozen out of his newspaper for revealing details of secret government talks with the PKK &nbsp; Peter Preston The Observer, Hasan Cemal: now persona non grata at one of Turkey&#8217;s leading newspapers. Photograph: Cem Turkel\/AFP\/Getty Images Meanwhile, in a foreign field: Hasan Cemal, former battling Turkish editor (against military juntas), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1223,7802],"class_list":["post-68659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-censorship","tag-hasan-cemal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}