The crackdown on media critical of the Turkish president and his government continues unabated with the official seizure of the country′s bestselling ″Zaman″ newspaper. With international criticism muted, many government critics fear the lights are about to finally go out for independent media. By Dorian Jones in Istanbul
The MEMRI Weekly: January 22-29, 2021
January 29, 2021
The following are links to reports from MEMRI s Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series, as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project, released during the past week.
MEMRI REPORTS
January 26, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9155
Turkish Scholar Cengiz Aktar In Open Letter To EU High Representative: The More You Appease President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, The More He Uses And Abuses Your Fears, And The More His Regime s Lifecycle Is Extended
January 26, 2021
On January 22, 2021, Turkish scholar Cengiz Aktar
[1] published a blistering open letter titled Bitter Joke Or Sheer Disgrace?
[2] to Josep Borrell Fontelles, high representative of the EU s union for foreign affairs and security policy, in response to a speech Borrell gave ahead of his January 21 meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
[3] Aktar harshly criticized Borrell, saying that while Ankara s modus operandi contradicts the EU s norms, standards, values and principles, Borrell had carefully refrained from saying anything about the sorry state of human rights and the rule of law in Turkey.