{"product_id":"9781785901386","title":"We Are Arrested: A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Can Dündar is a very courageous journalist.\" —Orhan Pamuk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn November 2015, Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eCumhuriyet\u003c\/i\u003e, was arrested on charges of divulging state secrets and espionage. Condemned and arraigned by the President himself, Dündar's \"crime\" was informing the public of the discovery of a highly illegal covert arms shipment. The story revealed that the country's intelligence service was secretly shipping weapons to Syria, making Turkey a party to the Syrian civil war. This was a crime that it was in the government's interest to conceal, and a journalist's duty to expose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of \u003ci\u003eWe Are Arrested\u003c\/i\u003e is taken from Can Dündar's tweet on the day he was detained. This book is his account of the discovery, the decision to publish it, and the events that unfolded after that decision. Dündar and the newspaper faced police barricades, would-be suicide bombers and assassination attempts, and fierce attacks from pro-government media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncarcerated in Silivri Prison, Dündar decided to write down his experiences. Here, in isolation, he learned to appreciate the small things in life. Most importantly, he realised that courage in an age of fear is essential if the public's right to know is to be defended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the events of July 2016, in which elements of Turkey's armed forces staged an attempted coup against the country's government, prompting backlash from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, this book stands as a beacon for free speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan Dündar\u003c\/b\u003e is editor-in-chief of the venerable daily newspaper \u003ci\u003eCumhuriyet\u003c\/i\u003e. In May of 2016 he was sentenced to imprisonment for five years and ten months for \"leaking secret information of the state.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biteback Publishing, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047583727856,"sku":"9781785901386","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781785901386_p0.jpg?v=1763729376","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781785901386","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}