Media crackdown silencing criticism of Turkish government

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  • Author(s): By:ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press
  • Source:
    Associated Press News Service, The, July 12, 2017 International, 7pp
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    • Abstract:
      ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A satirical cover for a political news magazine was all it took to see its editor eventually sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Cevheri Guven, editor in chief of Turkey's Nokta magazine, fled while out on bail late last year, smuggling his family out of a country he says is rapidly descending toward all-out dictatorship...