Turkey Shuts Down 15 Media Outlets, Arrests Opposition Editor

Turkish authorities shuttered 15 media outlets and arrested the editor of an opposition newspaper after early Monday raids. The crackdown is the lastest sweep of detainments since the country’s failed coup attempt in July. Murat Sabuncu, editor of the Cumhuriyet secularist newspaper, was reportedly arrested over accusations that he and other executives from the paper had committed crimes for Kurdish militants linked to cleric Fethullah Gülen. The shuttered newspapers include Jinha, one of the world’s only women’s news agencies. “The police came around 4 a.m. on Sunday morning and sealed the office,” said Beritan Canözer, a journalist for Jinha. “We have not received a court order. There have not been any official justifications for this measure. Nobody explained anything to us.” She added, “We will continue to report… They cannot silence us.”