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While the government in Turkey continues to turn a blind eye to the regression in the rule of law and media freedom, the connections between investigative journalists and the public are being weakened through detentions, arrests, and censorship applied to 449 online news articles and content within three months.

22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 behind bars. In the period of October-December, 33 media representatives, 2 websites, 1 Twitter account has been attacked; 43 journalists have been detained.