Ten jailed Turkish journalists from paper critical of government face media blackout in worrying trend

Istanbul (dpa) – Ten jailed journalists and executives from the government-critical Cumhuriyet newspaper are unable to obtain books and cannot send or receive letters, a violation of Turkish law, a legislator who recently visited them told their newspaper Tuesday Mahmut Tanal, a member of parliament from the People’s Republican Party (CHP), the main opposition bloc, said…