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Joint open letter to Erdogan over the brutal attacks on journalists in Turkey
After brutal attacks on journalists in Turkey during the past days, the ECPMF joins 19 other organisations in sending this open letter to President Erdoğan.
After the "state of emergency" in Turkey, the crackdown on civil society and media freedom has not ended. Photo: ECPMF
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May 16, 2019
Your Excellency, President Erdoğan
We are writing to you to express our serious concern over the brutal attacks on journalists in Turkey during the past five days.
On May 10, journalist Yavuz Selim Demirağ, regular contributor for the opposition newspaper Yeniçağ, was attacked outside his home in Ankara. The assailants beat the…