A newspaper in the dock on Press Freedom Day
July 24 is Press Freedom Day in Turkey. Ironically, this year it is also the day journalists and executives from Turkey’s oldest and most prestigious newspaper, Cumhuriyet, will face a judge for the first time – charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation. Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet’s exiled former editor-in-chief, and the 2017 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, looks back on the night 13 journalists were arrested and placed in solitary cells after police raided their homes.