by Michelle TrimbornTwo weeks after the coup attempt in Turkey, the country is facing a dreadful wave of arrests. So far, at least 131 media outlets have been shut down, many journalists are facing detention.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on a mission to cleanse his country from individuals and institution which allegedly undermine his power and have connections to the so-called Gülen movement. After having already expelled and partly detained thousands of soldiers and generals, judges, other civil servants and many academics, it is now the media which is facing the purge with a high number of detentions…
