Nation Party (Turkey, 1948) after a conflict and founded a new party. After some initial electoral success the party did not win any seats in the 1973 general elections, eventually dissolving itself in 1977. In 1992, the name was reused again when the Reformist Democracy Party ("Islahatçı Demokrasi Partisi"), led by Aykut Edibali, renamed itself as "Millet Partisi". "This article incorporates material from articles from the Turkish Wikipedia." Nation Party (Turkey, 1948) The Nation Party () was a conservative and nationalistic political party developed as a third option within the then bipartisan system in Turkey. It lasted from 1948 until 1953, when it was
Turkey Kurdish journalists, activists and politicians. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the AKP government has waged one of the world's biggest crackdowns on media freedom. A large number of journalists have been arrested using charges of "terrorism" and "anti-state activities" such as the Ergenekon and Balyoz cases, while thousands have been investigated on charges such as "denigrating Turkishness" or "insulting Islam" in an effort to sow self-censorship. As of 2017, the CPJ identified 81 jailed journalists in Turkey (including the editorial staff of "Cumhuriyet", Turkey's oldest newspaper still in circulation), all directly held for their published work (ranking 1st