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More than 82,000 people have been arrested since the failed coup, and more than 200,000 have been detained. Another 6,000 academics have been fired, 319 journalists have been arrested and 189 independent media outlets have been shut down, according to TurkeyPurge.com, run by former Today's Zaman editor Abdullah Bozkurt. Today's Zaman was one of Turkey's largest newspapers before Turkish authorities shut it down in 2016. Independent media critical of the Erdogan regime no longer exists.
President Reagan's support for Soviet dissidents offers "a sharp contrast to what Trump is rumored to be contemplating. I thought Trump read Erdogan better than what Obama did which was an appeasement," said Bozkurt, who was purged by Erdogan in 2016. "It signals a weakness which Erdogan smells and wants to exploit for his own benefit."