This article is on Turkey's media, igniting a war of words between pro-government and opposition press and TV outlets. This has lead to 20 arrests - of Ekrem Dumanli - cheif editor of Zaman (shown above on the left) along with other media executives.Turkish TV as well as hundreds of citizens of Turkey are criticising this. This has lead to protests, specially in Istanbul (captial city) against the arrests due to the fact that turks believe that this is restriction of 'freedom'. Protesters in front of Zaman's headquarters in Istanbul, holding posters saying, ''We all need free press'' and ''Free media cannot be silenced."
I believe that the Turkish citizens are correct, as this is not 1950's and the media should not be regulated in such ways where the press have little freedom to criticise political issues. This shows that this is clearly a Marxist society - as the press is being controlled. In addition, this shows that news is causing problems with politics.
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