Inside Turkey's media battleground

Threats, raids and arrests: Turkey intensifies pressure on the press; Plus, Bosnia's divided media.


Raids, arrests, threats and deportation - journalism is becoming increasingly dangerous in Turkey as the government clamps down on the media covering stories it wants ignored.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of a heavy-handed approach with journalists after one of the country's largest media houses - Dogan Media Group - was investigated for alleged "terrorism propaganda."

The probe came on the heels of the Nokta news magazine being raided and it's latest edition being banned; and three journalists from the New York-based Vice News being arrested in Diyarbakir for quote "working for a terrorist organisation".

At a time when entire cities in the southeast - Diyarbakir and Cizre - have been placed under curfew, Erdogan's latest crackdown has made a military offensive against Kurdish separatists increasingly difficult to cover.