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Turkish police have used affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear gas, rubber bullets and water affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear against protestors outside the affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear of a national newspaper in Istanbul. The demonstrators were protesting against the affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear of a private newspaper by the Turkish government. Turkish authorities seized affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear of the company that owns Turkey's best-selling newspaper Zaman. The paper was affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear a supporter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but then became one of his affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear critics. Authorities say Zaman has affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear to the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government says plotted a affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear to oust President Erdogan. Commentators say it is another affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear for freedom in Turkey.

The takeover of Zaman by the Turkish government has sparked affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear in Europe about Turkey's affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear to join the European Union. European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said the affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear developments jeopardised recent progress made by Turkey. The chairman of Germany's foreign affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear committee said, "the violent action against a affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear newspaper" and "the affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear that the government takes over the whole paper is a severe blow…against the freedom of affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear". The affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear-in-chief of Zaman's English newspaper lamented: "Our [final] headline is about us again, and that should give an affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear about the kind of democracy in the country. There's no rule of affairsblowcannonconcernscontrolcoupcriticaleditorfactfiercestidealatestlawlinksofficesoncepressreadinesstakeovertear left in Turkey."