Turkey has responded to July’s failed coup with a massive crackdown on the media. Nobel-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk says, "Freedom of thought no longer exists" in Turkey. It is also a tough time for international media outlets, including Deutsche Welle. A Deutsche Welle TV-team, led by presenter Michel Friedman, recently conducted an interview with a Turkish cabinet minister - only to have the material confiscated. But hardest hit are journalists believed to be supporters of either the U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen or the outlawed PKK.

Is Ankara, as it claims, merely defending its legitimate interests? Or is Turkey, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slowly but surely turning into a dictatorship, as the president’s critics claim?

Our guests:

Michel Friedman works as a lawyer and journalist.

Alan Posener is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper „Die Welt".

Gökcen Beyinli is a freelance journalist, a PhD candidate in history at Humboldt University and a collaborator at the University of Oxford.

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