PBS NewsHour

Turkey silences more journalists in post-coup crackdown

Clip: 11/02/2016 | 8m 8s

Turkey's main opposition newspaper is the latest target of a Turkish government purge. Some 170 news outlets have been shuttered since July, just one facet of a crackdown on anyone suspected to support an Islamic cleric accused of fomenting a coup attempt. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Amberin Zaman of the Woodrow Wilson Center about the consolidation of power by the Turkish president.

Aired: 11/02/16

Expired: 12/02/16

Rating: NR

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