Amnesty on Turkish media crackdown: 'Disinformation prospers when media panorama's narrowed down'

The state takeover of Halk TV, one in all Turkey’s most generally watched information channels, represents way over an remoted confrontation between the authorities and an impartial broadcaster. For Milena Buyum, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner, it’s a part of a broader erosion of media pluralism, characterised by the appointment of state trustees, the detention of journalists and mounting restrictions on impartial digital platforms. Buyum describes the intervention as a “brutal assault on media freedom in Turkey,” framing it inside a sustained crackdown on impartial journalism that has intensified since March 2025. 



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