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Turkey is turning into a paranoid one-party state

President Erdogan’s increasingly tyrannical regime is suppressing the truth about its war on the Kurds

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

30 January 2016

9:00 AM

 

 Istanbul

Turkey is less and less a democracy, more and more a paranoid one-party state. If you don’t believe that, look at what happens to those who draw attention to the government’s failures and crimes. The editors of Cumhuriyet, a centre-left broadsheet, have been delivering their editorials from jail since November.

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