Watchdog alarmed by Turkish media fine - Erdogan's government trying to muzzle unfavorable press
An international watchdog says the Turkish government's decision to impose an "unprecedented" penalty on the country's largest media group is alarming.Turkey's Finance Ministry imposed a $2.5 billion (euro1.7 billion) tax fine on Dogan Yayin, a conglomerate of newspapers and TV stations. The fine for allegedly unpaid taxes sparked accusations that the government is trying to muzzle a media group that has been critical of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
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Erdogan's AKP is more and more like an elected dictatorship. They use government funds -indirectly, via the Calik group- to finance "friendly press" while they are imposing huge fines on the press who is even slightly critical. Press is not the only victim of this opressive regime.
AKP also use the Ergenekon investigation to lock up University Professors, Writers, Journalists and anybody else who is critical of the regime.
Even worse, AKP do all these with the support of USA and EU.
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