I guess I’m being nostalgic now, but this used to be the masthead for my newspaper, until it was taken over by the Turkish government (well, actually, it was the police using tear gas who stormed the building in the middle of the night on Friday). For anybody interested in seeing what happened I would recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fN9bqOlaKM -- it’s pretty shocking and hard for me to watch; I used to work in that building, starting from before it was launched in 2007, and some of those people are my friends.

Anyway, all of our names have been removed from the masthead, and now only the names of the three trustees appear. We are still producing a paper every day, which has shrunk from 20 to eight pages, but the content must be approved by the trustees, so it’s pretty much wires and features pieces. This isn’t sustainable, but I don’t know how long it will take for the paper to completely die. In fact, the entire staff seems to be dying a slow death.

Our last front page as an independent newspaper, posted earlier: