A look at two groups of exiled journalists: those on the run from Turkey, and others who have found a sanctuary there.
Turkey: No country for bold journalists?
Last month, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a rare press briefing for journalists in the country's media capital, Istanbul.
In his opening remarks, Erdogan said that freedom of the press was of "vital importance" to him.
It was a statement that failed to square with the facts, let alone the numbers. Because for each of the last three years -- since July of 2016, when an attempted coup failed to depose the president -- Turkey has imprisoned more journalists than any other country.
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