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Turkey | Breaking the Silence
How Turkey smothered press freedom — and made arresting its journalists a weapon. A documentary by Voice of America. | Watch the full documentary
Senior Executive Producer/Director
Beth Mendelson
Managing Editor,
Writer & Producer
Tom Detzel
Writer/Producer
Nathan Antila
Senior Editor/Producer
Carol Slatkin
Field Producer (Turkey)
Reyan Tuvi
Associate Producer
Kembra Allen
Director of Photography
(Turkey)
Sinan Kesgin
Photography
(Washington D.C.)
Michael Burke
Adam Greenbaum
Photography
(New York City)
Mike Farino
Photography
(Croatia)
Alan Stankovic
Additional Photography
(Turkey)
Alper Tuğra Çakıcı
Art Direction & Graphics
Chin Soo Park
Graphics
Matthew Houston
Anthony Charles White
Composer
Roger Hooper
Re-Recording Mixer
Skip SoRelle
Color Correction
Marcus Harton
Larz LaComa
Intern
Vanessa Montalbano
About the project
The right to free and open access to news and information should be universal, but threats to a free press persist in many parts of the world. Turkey is one of them. Though Turkey is a democracy, the watchdog group Freedom House classifies it as “not free” in part because of media restrictions and digital censorship. The advocacy group Reporters Without Borders calls Turkey the “world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists,” with digital censorship reaching “unprecedented levels.”
About VOA
Voice of America provides trusted and objective news and information in 47 languages to more than 278 million people around the world. We strive to fill the void created by censorship and repression, model the workings of a free press, and tell America’s story in all its diversity. VOA is part of the United States Agency for Global Media.