Will Turkish elections lead to greater press freedom?
by Fariba Nawa
May 05, 2023
4 minutes
It was 6:30 one morning last October when Kurdish journalist Servin Rozerin went to work in the office of Mezopotamya press agency in Ankara, Turkey. Scarcely had she arrived when police burst through the door, pushed her against the wall, took her phone and laptop, and held her for nine hours while they confiscated all of the files and equipment in the newsroom, Ms. Rozerin says.
The police eventually released the young woman, but the incident has had lasting effects. “I was really scared because I was a woman on my own with so many armed men,” she says. “They treated me like an enemy. Even to this day, I’m afraid that they could take me again.”
But she continues to
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