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

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