Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
March 12, 2012 at 6:13pm
The two best-known imprisoned Turkish journalists have been released on bail following a year in jail.
It is an important thing.
There are many more. There's a long way to go.
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Aug '10
Re: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
The loud silence of the readership here may define our newly lost respect for journalists , as our reach is limited to our own shores and our own washed-out scribes who turned in their ethics long ago.
I could pass the hat and fill it with fins to put Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd in a Turkish prison for a long stint, except for the pleasure they would derive from same.
Edited on March 13, 2012 at 12:08amRe: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
Our silence is, I think, a function of being focused on our own problems -- which makes us oblivious to those of our friends. In Turkey, this saga will end either in dictatorship or in a revolution of sorts. Were there an opposition with any moxie, the latter would happen -- and it would take place at the ballot box.
Sep '10
Re: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
To many of a theistic bent, wars and rumors of war in Asia Minor and Jerusalem are calls to prayer and fasting. To many of a secular bent, it brings about a wish that the American people had but a single neck.
Aug '10
Re: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
Pseudo
As always , your words construct many houses .
A single neck beckons and horrifies.
( or was that one of those guy 's name ?)
Edited on March 13, 2012 at 3:18amSep '11
Re: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
I follow Claire's news from Turkey very closely. So in my case silence doesn't denote lack of interest. It means I have nothing to say. Wittgenstein said in such circumstances I should keep quiet. I have tried to internalise that advice, admittedly with mixed results.
Mar '12
Re: Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener Have Been Released
I find your reports very disturbing, especially since the few discussions I've seen elsewhere about Turkey generally praise Erdogan as a mild moderate and great friend to America. The interview he gave to Fareed Zakaria gave me the opposite impression.
Have you read the Erdogan profile in this week's New Yorker ("The Deep State: The Prime Minister is revered as a moderate, but how far will he go to stay in power?")? The whole way through the piece, I wondered how you would respond to it.