Young people in Turkey are defying decades of oppression  - Index on Censorship

Young people in Turkey are defying decades of oppression  - Index on Censorship

Young people in Turkey have a lot to feel enraged about, from worsening living conditions to the government’s rampant corruption. Since 2015, I have felt my own fair share of rage.  That was the year my father, Can Dündar, a journalist and former editor-in-chief of the opposition daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, was imprisoned on trumped up terror charges. Pro-government press outlets told lies about him and our family, and prosecutors sought multipl…