伊斯坦布尔——10月24日，数千人在伊斯坦布尔和安卡拉集会，抗议他们所说的土耳其对记者的压力日益加大，包括逮捕、关停媒体以及委任国家管理员。
ISTANBUL – Thousands rallied in Istanbul and Ankara on Oct 24 against what they described as growing pressure on journalists in Turkey, including arrests, media shutdowns and the appointment of state administrators.
“够了。我们已无法呼吸，”人群中的游行者高呼，人群主要由记者、权利团体和反对党代表组成。
“Enough. We can no longer breathe,” shouted marchers in the crowds, which were composed mainly of journalists, rights groups and opposition party representatives.
自2016年未遂政变以来，土耳其的新闻自由日益受限，面临大规模起诉和数字审查。但权利倡导者表示，最近几周对独立新闻业的压力不断加大。
Press freedom has been increasingly constrained in Turkey since a failed coup attempt in 2016, with sweeping prosecutions and digital censorship. But recent weeks have seen what rights advocates say is mounting pressure on independent journalism.
据土耳其记者工会称，过去两个月有11名记者入狱，多家媒体机构被关停。据警方称，至少3000人聚集在伊斯坦布尔亚洲一侧。
Eleven journalists have been jailed in the past two months and several media outlets shut down, according to the Turkish Journalists’ Union. At least 3,000 people gathered on the Asian side of Istanbul, according to police.
他们举着被囚记者的照片，高呼：“我们不会被噤声。够了就是够了！”和“我们不会向压力低头”。
They held up photos of jailed journalists, chanting: “We will not be silenced. Enough is enough!” and “We will not bow to pressure”.
10月初，警方突击搜查了土耳其收视率最高的新闻频道Halk TV，叫停广播并安插了一名政府委任的管理员。
Earlier in October, police raided Turkey’s most-watched news channel, Halk TV, halting broadcasts and installing a government-appointed administrator.
这一举措是针对被视为批评总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安及其政府的媒体机构的最新打压行动。
The move was the latest against media outlets seen as critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government.
此前，当局以“宣传LGBT”为由，关闭了领先数字新闻媒体T24的网站和社交媒体账号。
It followed the closure of the website and social media accounts belonging to leading digital news outlet T24 over what authorities described as “LGBT propaganda”.
“此次集会不仅仅是为声援记者，”资深记者扎费尔·阿拉普克尔在伊斯坦布尔抗议活动后告诉法新社。
“This gathering is not simply about standing up for journalists,” veteran journalist Zafer Arapkirli told AFP after the Istanbul protest.
“也是在捍卫社会通过记者和独立媒体获取信息和新闻的权利受到尊重，”《BirGun》日报专栏作家阿拉普克尔说。
“It is also about defending respect for society’s right to access information and news through journalists and independent media,” said the columnist for the BirGun daily.
阿拉普克尔本人也面临诉讼。他说，压力越大，反击和对抗的决心就必须越强。
Intimidation For Arapkirli – who himself faces lawsuits – the more intense the pressure becomes, the stronger the response and the determination to stand against it must be.
“政权想要的是通过这种压力来恐吓、噤声并吓唬社会——通过逮捕个别记者、查封媒体机构、禁止新闻报道和封锁社交媒体访问，”他说。“我们必须表明我们不会允许这种事情发生。
“What the regime wants is to intimidate, silence and frighten society through such pressure – by arresting individual journalists, seizing media outlets, banning news coverage and blocking access to social media,” he said. “We must show that we will not allow this to happen.
“到目前为止我们已经这样做了。我相信我们现在正朝着在大得多的规模上展示这种决心的方向迈进。”在安卡拉，根据警方统计，至少有3000名抗议者聚集。他们高呼：“反对审查制度”和“释放被囚记者”。
“We have done so up to now. I believe we are now moving towards demonstrating this determination on a much larger scale.”In Ankara, at least 3,000 protesters gathered, according to a police count. They shouted: “No to censorship” and “Freedom for jailed journalists”.
“今天的抗议很重要，既因为它让记者们聚集在一起发出声音，也因为它捍卫了公民获取信息的权利，”已关停的T24协调员戈克切·塔欣乔卢在安卡拉告诉法新社。
“Today’s protest was important both because it brought journalists together to make their voices heard and because it defended citizens’ right to access information,” Gokcer Tahincioglu, coordinator for the shutdown T24, told AFP in Ankara.
“记者们决心传达一个信息：我们要从事新闻工作，并且要能自由地从事新闻工作，”他说。
“Journalists are determined to get one message across: we want to practise journalism, and we want to be able to do so freely,” he said.
赞扬已关停的T24之后出现的团结，塔欣乔卢说：“我们希望尽快恢复自由报道所需的条件。” 法新社
Praising the solidarity after the now shut T24, Tahincioglu said: “We want to regain the conditions necessary to report freely as soon as possible.”AFP