A dangerous place to be a journalist

摘要

Recep tayyip erdogan, Turkey's mildly Islamist prime minister, likes to boast that his Justice and Development (ak) party has transformed the country into a "forward democracy". But the detention and imprisonment of two investigative journalists on March 6th looks very much like a step backwards. The arrests of Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener came at a time of growing concern about pressure on the media. Scores of journalists, many of them Kurds, are in jail. The European Union and America say they are worried. Thousands of Turks took to the streets in protest after the arrests.