Modern American organization which is not below to the government in New York uncovered which aim to protect freedom of the press that Turkey jailed around on third of the journalists on the level of the world on 2016. During the crackdown which Ankara took after the coup, the Turkish powers jailed at least 81 journalists because turkey believe that they are dealing with the officer who lead the coup. And the powers indictment those journalists that they are doing action against state in addition to close around 100 news media.
Turkey said: that among those journalists who are in jail some of them below to terrors group and some of them in contact with Abdula Gul or take precedent Rajab Taib Ardugan in vain.
At the global level, the number of journalists imprisoned on December 1, 2016 totaled 259, the highest number being recorded at all, compared with 199 journalists in 2015, and 232 journalists in 2012, the highest number recorded previously
China and occupies second place after Turkey in terms of the number of journalists detained during the year, followed by Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
