Book Review

Media Freedom: Contested Legacy of a Concept in Turkey

From the late Ottoman era to today’s Turkey, the state of media freedom has never been secure amid incessant political pressure from the palace or governments.

Abdullah Ayasun
8 min readJul 24, 2018
Anti-riot police detains a journalist during a police raid to break up protest at Ankara University in early 2017.

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Abdullah Ayasun

New York-based journalist and writer. Columbia School of Journalism. 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Scholar. Twitter: @abyasun