Silencing Kurdish media

Three months after the failed military coup in Turkey, media outlets there are still dealing with the aftermath. Late last month, 25 media outlets were ordered closed by Turkey's broadcast regulator - but the purge is not limited to Gulen movement as most of the outlets were Kurdish. As the national state of emergency is extended, more and more Kurdish journalists find they are being treated as enemies of the state. "We should be doing broadcasting in our land, in Kurdistan, in Turkey, but we had to leave because there was so much oppression and punishment," says Ferda Cetin, director at Med Nuce TV, a Kurdish tv station based in Belgium.

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