Turkish government jails editor on terror charges
UPDATE: On March 9, 2018, Sabuncu was released on bail after spending over a year in pretrial detention. The charges still stand.
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – In 2011, Murat Sabuncu, the editor-in-chief of Turkey’s oldest, most respected newspaper, Cumhuriyet, made regular trips to visit the notorious Silivri Prison. He would travel about 60 miles from Istanbul to a beach town where Turkey’s highest-security prison, now Europe’s largest penal facility, held his friend and colleague, investigative journalist Nedim…