Yesterday I showed the other admin (Antepli) some tweets that sparked an interesting discussion. In the first tweet, the Turkish justice minister had claimed that nobody [in Turkey] was imprisoned for journalism immediately followed by several other tweets showing lists of journalists that were imprisoned to which the other admin his argumentation followed from his notion that journalists are also subject to criminal law and that their journalistic rights protect their conduct and not their content even while he accepted that several of them were indeed unjustly arrested.
Yet I believe that there are some issues regarding this, the first being with the 'who' becomes 'when' a journalist or a writer for the PKK? If a PKK leader one day declares that "The Turkish state is a terrorist entity" and one journalist tweets pretty much the same, does that somehow mean that the journalist is writing for the PKK to spread their message? Unfortunately for the Turkish government is often can be enough reason to arrest you but this is exactly what creates the bigger problem, anybody who by chance says the same as what a PKK leader once has said suddenly becomes a terrorist in the eyes of the government further threatening the already pathetic state of freedom of speech in Turkey in which everybody could be a potential PKK propagandist.
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