{"id":23697,"date":"2013-07-12T23:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T19:40:02","slug":"istanbul-police-block-journalists-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=23697","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Police Block Journalists&#8217; Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/protest-in-Turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23695\" alt=\"protest in Turkey\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/protest-in-Turkey.jpg\" width=\"628\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/protest-in-Turkey.jpg 628w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/protest-in-Turkey-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/protest-in-Turkey-412x300.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a>Police have blocked hundreds of journalists from marching in Istanbul to demand press freedoms and denounce the harassment of colleagues during a spate of anti-government demonstrations last month.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists were detained or targeted by police while covering the nearly three weeks of protests, and some who sided with protesters were sacked or resigned.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists on Friday planned to walk to a main square but were prevented by police. They staged a brief sit-in before dispersing.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan&#8217;s government has shown little tolerance of dissent and dozens of journalists have been jailed or fired since it came to power a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan&#8217;s government insists it is committed to democracy, citing reforms that reduced the use of torture and increased the rights of the country&#8217;s Kurdish minority.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have blocked hundreds of journalists from marching in Istanbul to demand press freedoms and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}