The Crackdown

This article is about a Turkish women and her family trying to cope with Turkey’s crackdown. She is the wife of an imprisoned journalist named Kadri Gursel who works for the newspaper called Cumhuriyet. Many of the journalist working for the newspaper have been arrested; so many that it has hired a special bus service for their relatives to visit them. Gursel is one of 81 journalists now imprisoned in Turkey; many arrested after the failed coup attempt accused of being part of the Islamist Gulenist movements or to a secular Kurdish militant group. However, Gursel was a longstanding critic of Gulenists.