Turkey's despotism goes deeper than the arrest of Vice journalists
As if cracking down on Kurds wasn’t bad enough, Turkey is now cracking down on journalists who report on this, too. Days ago, two British journalists and their Iraqi fixer, working for Vice News, were arrested in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey, where they were filming clashes between the Kurdish PKK party and police. Charged with “engaging in terrorist activity”, they now face trial – a move condemned by Vice and human rights organisations alike.