Summary: Raids, arrests, threats and deportation - journalism is becoming increasingly dangerous in Turkey as the government clamps down on the media covering stories it wants ignored. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been accused of a heavy-handed approach with journalists after one of the country's largest media houses - Dogan Media Group - was investigated for alleged "terrorism propaganda." The probe came on the heels of the Nokta news magazine being raided and it's latest edition being banned; and three journalists from the New York-based Vice News being arrested in Diyarbakir for quote "working for a terrorist organisation". At a time when entire cities in the southeast - Diyarbakir and Cizre - have been placed under curfew, Erdogan's latest crackdown has made a military offensive against Kurdish separatists increasingly difficult to cover. Discussing Turkey’s deteriorating state of press freedom are: Idil Engindeniz, a media scholar at Galatasaray University; Bekir Hazar, the host at TV show Yaz Boz; Cevheri Guven, Editor at Nokta magazine; and Murat Bayram, a reporter for Kurdistan 24. Other media stories on our radar this week: journalists keep getting arrested and detained in Thailand; Charlie Hebdo's controversial cartoon poking fun at the death of Alan Kurdi; and the murder of a journalist in Colombia - that was caught on camera. Bosnia's divided media Twenty years ago this December, a three-year-long civil war ended in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a complex power sharing arrangement that split the country in two. The two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina administered by Bosnian Muslims; and the Republika Srpska, administered by Serbs; created a complicated political structure that also divided the media landscape. In an effort to transcend the ethnic divide, journalists are banding together to combat a range of political and economic pressures. The Listening Post's Flo Phillips reports from Sarajevo on their efforts and the problems Bosnian journalists face on a daily basis.
