{"id":15141,"date":"2017-04-24T09:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=15141"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T14:55:04","slug":"exiled-journalist-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2017\/04\/24\/exiled-journalist-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiled journalist speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Abd\u00fclhamit Bilici, a political exile from Turkey, will be speaking at Sinclair.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Bilici was the editor-in-chief of Zaman, the largest newspaper in Turkey which reaches a circulation of about one million people in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Zaman was taken over by the Turkish government and journalists working there were either jailed or forced to become a voice of the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Bilici was able to flee and came to the United States after the seizure of his paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">According to Bilici, Turkey\u2019s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, now controls 90 percent of all Turkish media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Turkey accounts for nearly a third of all journalists jailed around the globe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAs a victim of and witness to the process during which our democracy has been hijacked by a populist Islamist leader, I wish my country could turn back to democracy soon, and I urge Americans to never take your democratic rights for granted,\u201d Bilici said in the Albuquerque Journal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Bilici is speaking at Sinclair on Monday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the green room on the third floor of Building 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Laina Yost<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Managing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abd\u00fclhamit Bilici, a political exile from Turkey, will be speaking at Sinclair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10290,"featured_media":15139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1937,446,1938,2005,1382,1388,14,1425],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-bilici","tag-journalism","tag-journalist","tag-laina-yost","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-sinclair","tag-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/NewsDude.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-3Wd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15563,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions\/15563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}