Coup Underway in Turkey

[Paul Rigby]

There was a story the other day on NPR/BBC that a Turkish journalist resigned rather than continuing to work under the new Erdogan government, after blowing the whistle on the Turkish government's providing arms to Syrian rebels.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37081804

There's also this story:

Turkey To Release 38,000 Prisoners Early To Make Room For Coup Conspirators

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/17/490386973/...nspirators

Which will be a lot of floor space for 10 guys, even if they are Americans.

Maybe, just maybe, Turkish journalists aren't quite as free to speak the truth as one would hope.

The "human rights" wing of the American deep state is assuredly about to discover all kinds of appalling infractions of "democratic norms," from a failure to fill the coffers of the Clinton Foundation to torturing the wrong people. As for a "free press," it really is time America acquired one.