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We Are Arrested Author: Can Dundar

ISBN: 9781785901386 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 320 Published: 1 December 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.8 Description:

In November 2015 Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Turkey's Cumhuriyet newspaper and its Ankara Bureau Chief Erdem Gul were arrested on charges of divulging state secrets and espionage. Their so-called crime was informing the public of the discovery of a covert arms shipment. The newspaper had obtained footage taken months earlier by the police when they intercepted several trucks ostensibly shipping medicines to Syria. Searches revealed weapons hidden beneath boxes of medicines; the drivers turned out to be from Turkey's National Intelligence Agency. Having assumed an authority it did not have, the country's intelligence service was secretly shipping weapons to a neighbouring country, destined, in all likelihood, for radical Islamist organisations - illegally making Turkey a party in the Syrian civil war.

This was a crime that was in the government's interest to conceal, and a journalist's duty to expose.  But whereas in other famous cases of political wrong-doing - Watergate,  Iran -Contra, the Pentagon Papers - it was the guilty who were prosecuted, in Turkey today, it is often the journalist.

The title of the book is taken from Can Dundar's twe...

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