Read All About It (Or Not): The Trouble with the Turkish Press

By Kate Cyr Correspondent, Masters Student in Peace & Conflict Studies Istanbul’s 2013 Gezi Park protests unearthed muddy tales of corruption, bias, and authoritarianism that powerful conglomerates and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) would have preferred buried indefinitely. The government received global scrutiny as anyone from students to grandmothers gathered in the streets…