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[Tim Drayton]

There was debate over whether Can Dündar was right to get out of Turkey or stay and face the music. I must say that, with all of Cumhuriyet's 'heavy cannons' now behind bars, apart from him, I am delighted that he can carry on in exile and produce masterpieces like this:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/koseyazisi ... ki....html
(in Turkish)

'The pen is mightier than the sword' as the old saying goes and material like this serves to prove the point.

[Tim Drayton]

How the organisation that fights for press freedom, Reporters Without Borders, views Erdoğan:

https://rsf.org/en/predator/recep-tayyip-erdogan

[Tim Drayton]

I think he has excelled himself again in his column today, which has appeared in translation in Cumhuriyet's English-language section:

http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/engl ... buncu.html

[Get Real!]

I am glad that Can Dündar made it into exile

Yeah I was losing shitloads of sleep over that…