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She said, ‘The central bank doesn’t use interest rates as a weapon’; experienced Turkish journalist Meliha Okur fired

Meliha Okur, who has worked in journalism for 35 years and was writing on economy, was fired from the Sabah daily, which is run by one of then-Prime Minister Erdoğan’s relatives.

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Okur wrote as follows in her last piece: “The central bank hasn’t been using the interest rates as a weapon since 2011. … We are all in the same boat, no matter what our political views are. When the boat sinks, it doesn’t matter which deck we are sitting on.”

Jan. 9, 2014

[From the Book – ‘Freedom of the Press: Events and Photographs 2014′ by Salih Sarıkaya]

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