{"id":4514,"date":"2022-05-01T21:39:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/why-a-vocal-turkish-activists-prison-sentence-is-a-nail-in-the-coffin-for-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T21:39:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T21:39:44","slug":"why-a-vocal-turkish-activists-prison-sentence-is-a-nail-in-the-coffin-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"Why a vocal Turkish activist&#8217;s prison sentence is a &#8216;nail in the coffin&#8217; for free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FR2KG_O6MC4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A Turkish court last week sentenced activist and businessman Osman Kavala to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the government during 2013 protests. Kavala&#8217;s sentencing is just another example of President Erdogan&#8217;s crackdown on free speech. Temel Keren, a journalist and author of &#8220;How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps From Democracy to Dictatorship,&#8221; joins Geoff Bennett to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters:\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Turkish court last week sentenced activist and businessman Osman Kavala to life in prison for attempting to overthrow the government during 2013 protests. Kavala&#8217;s sentencing is just another example of President Erdogan&#8217;s crackdown on free speech. Temel Keren, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[241,8644,8645,8646,8641,8647,8642,8569,8648,8643,8649],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-free-speech","tag-free-speech-osman-kavala","tag-free-speech-political-protest","tag-free-speech-turkey","tag-osman-kavala","tag-osman-kavala-jail-sentence","tag-osman-kavala-trial","tag-political-activist","tag-political-protests","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}