Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear

This article examines the historical roots of role successive Turkish governments’ fear media and media’s government authority with respect to development press freedom over long run closely analyzes pressures imposed on journalists through legal informal means. We focus particularly economic political pressure in Turkey offer three arguments regarding media: (1) Media is rather than a rupture that happened during Justice Development Party era; (2) out losing power, governments use structural, legislative extra-legal factors advantage ruling party support friendly media-ecology; (3) repressed attempt come this ecology by utilizing new tactics reporting, such as alternative citizen journalism.