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| An international delegation representing two leading press-freedom advocacy groups left Saturday for a weeklong visit to Turkey, where they plan to talk with Turkish officials, possibly including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, about harassment and persecution of foreign and domestic journalists whose reporting is deemed hostile or unfair by the government. | |
| The 20-member delegation, composed of representatives from the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based organization, and the International Press Institute, based in Vienna, has been promised a meeting with Mr. Erdogan, who is known for castigating journalists and their news organizations over articles that he considers a challenge to his authority. | The 20-member delegation, composed of representatives from the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based organization, and the International Press Institute, based in Vienna, has been promised a meeting with Mr. Erdogan, who is known for castigating journalists and their news organizations over articles that he considers a challenge to his authority. |
| Mr. Erdogan recently singled out The New York Times, for example, denouncing articles that described the Turkish connections to recruiting and oil-smuggling operations of the Islamic State, the militant extremist group. He accused The Times of seeking to create an impression that he was a supporter of the Islamic State, an assertion that was denied by the newspaper. | Mr. Erdogan recently singled out The New York Times, for example, denouncing articles that described the Turkish connections to recruiting and oil-smuggling operations of the Islamic State, the militant extremist group. He accused The Times of seeking to create an impression that he was a supporter of the Islamic State, an assertion that was denied by the newspaper. |
| Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, who is helping lead the delegation, said it would likely see Mr. Erdogan in his offices in Ankara, the capital, but the exact date had not yet been set. He said the group, which will visit with Turkish newspapers and other media, also has a meeting planned with Turkey’s justice minister. | Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, who is helping lead the delegation, said it would likely see Mr. Erdogan in his offices in Ankara, the capital, but the exact date had not yet been set. He said the group, which will visit with Turkish newspapers and other media, also has a meeting planned with Turkey’s justice minister. |
| Mr. Erdogan agreed to the meeting in an impromptu fashion last Monday during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where the Turkish leader was visiting to attend the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting. Asked by Harold Evans, Reuters editor-at-large, if he would meet with the delegation’s members, Mr. Erdogan first asked if they were journalists. Assured that they were, he said: “I would be very pleased to meet them. Please ask them to talk to my colleague so that I can welcome them in my office in Turkey.” | Mr. Erdogan agreed to the meeting in an impromptu fashion last Monday during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where the Turkish leader was visiting to attend the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting. Asked by Harold Evans, Reuters editor-at-large, if he would meet with the delegation’s members, Mr. Erdogan first asked if they were journalists. Assured that they were, he said: “I would be very pleased to meet them. Please ask them to talk to my colleague so that I can welcome them in my office in Turkey.” |
| Under Mr. Erdogan, the country has become an increasingly difficult working environment for journalists, news media advocates say, with history of arrests, harassment, lawsuits and dismissals of writers whose work is deemed offensive or seditious. Toward the end of last year, 40 journalists were under arrest in Turkey, more than any other country, according to data compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, but many of them have since been released — a development that Mr. Simon welcomed. “Turkey is no longer the world’s leading imprisoner of journalists,” he said. | Under Mr. Erdogan, the country has become an increasingly difficult working environment for journalists, news media advocates say, with history of arrests, harassment, lawsuits and dismissals of writers whose work is deemed offensive or seditious. Toward the end of last year, 40 journalists were under arrest in Turkey, more than any other country, according to data compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, but many of them have since been released — a development that Mr. Simon welcomed. “Turkey is no longer the world’s leading imprisoner of journalists,” he said. |