Is Turkey's Free Press Under Attack?

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• published: 23 May 2016
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Enemy of the State: A look at President Erdogan's attack on Turkey's free press For similar stories, see: The Hidden War Between The Kurds And Turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krxv6iVaR7o Inside Syria's PKK Rebel Camps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvDsKnLN-V0 How The Syrian Spaceman Fell To Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcC1VA2wSk Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6773/enemy-of-the-state Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Despite ISIS on the doorstep of Europe, perhaps the greatest threat to Turkish democracy and freedom lies within the state itself. After 13 years of leadership, has Erdoğan's strong-arm state reached too far? Just days before he was shot at and then imprisoned for revealing state secrets, Turkish journalist Can Dündar warned of the dangers faced by his colleagues in the press. The editor in chief of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet risked his life to highlight what he sees as a state take-over of the media. ”Erdoğan loves to call his opponents as terrorists... all we have done is published a story that is true, and he calls it an act of terrorism” he says. ”This is the first time we have seen such a thing in Turkey - it's unbelievable”. Yet as internal unrest and ISIS extremism threaten the country's fragile stability - and even more tenuous hope of a place in Europe - human rights have been sacrificed for the sake of state control. As Erdoğan refuses to release his decade-long power-grasp, freedom of speech can no longer be taken for granted in Turkey. ”There are now almost no free media organisations that can freely produce a TV series or have control of the medium”, says actor Levent Üzümcü. ”That’s why we can’t talk about anything being free in Turkey today”. SBS Australia – Ref. 6773 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.