Proposed Turkish extremism laws would target critical journalists, politicians and academics

Turkey’s President Tayyip Recep Erdogan called on Wednesday for the country’s parliament to redefine the country’s anti-extremism law to include journalists, politicians and academics. In a speech in the Turkish capital Ankara, where a car bomb killed at least 37 people on Sunday, the Turkish leader said that pro-Kurdish politicians had been “inciting terrorism”, in an…