Journalist in Exile

Relying on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to bring justice to the killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is, as the Turkish idiom goes, like “entrusting the liver to the cat.” We are relying on the wrong person on such a critical issue. Erdogan may be putting on a good show in his speeches and writings demanding that those responsible stand trial in Turkey, but remember that we are talking about the biggest jailer of journalists in the world. Turkey, which labels journalists terrorists and traitors and literally ruins their lives, is not concerned with human rights. I know, because they did that to me. I once was the editor in chief of Today’s Zaman , a newspaper that was shuttered in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016. Even before that tragic and still mysterious day when so many innocent people lost their lives, the Turkish government had taken over Zaman in March 2016, some four months before July 15, and sent many of us who worked