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Former Editor of Cumhuriyet, Turkey - Can Dundar

Published: March 21, 2018, 3 a.m.

In the battle for Turkey\u2019s future and its soul, who is winning? More than 150 journalists are currently in prison in Turkey. President Erdogan\u2019s government stands accused of an all-out assault on freedom of expression. Stephen Sackur talks to Can D\xfcndar, former editor of the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet, who has experienced imprisonment, life threatening violence and exile in the last couple of years after publishing material which infuriated the Turkish president.

(Photo: Can Duendar, Turkish journalist, during an interview at the 2017 Frankfurt Book Fair. Credit: Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)