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Zaman newspaper: Defiant last edition as Turkey police raid

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Turkey's biggest newspaper, Zaman, has condemned its takeover by the authorities in a defiant last edition published just before police raided it.</div>
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Saturday's edition said Turkey's press had experienced "one of the darkest days in its <span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375;">history".</span></div>
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Turkish police raided Zaman's offices hours after a court ruling placed it under state control, but managers were still able to get the edition to print.</div>
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Zaman readers have protested against the takeover outside the offices.</div>
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Police dispersed the demonstration, numbering about 500 people, with tear gas and water <span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.375;">cannon. The newspaper's supporters chanted "Free press cannot be silenced".</span></div>
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A number of the journalists returned to work on Saturday, but some of them tweeted that:</div>
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One reporter, Abdullah Bozturk, said attempts were also under way to wipe the newspaper's entire online archive.</div>
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The paper is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which Turkey says is a "terrorist" group aiming to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.</div>
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Mr Gulen was once an ally of Mr Erdogan but the two fell out. Many Hizmet supporters have been arrested.</div>
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font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 8px 1px; position: absolute; right: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Today's Zaman newspaper</span></span><figcaption class="media-caption" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;"><span class="off-screen" style="border: 0px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px;">Image caption</span><span class="media-caption__text" style="border: 0px; color: #ececec; display: block; 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The court ruled on Friday that Zaman, <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://www.medyatava.com/tiraj" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">which has a circulation of some 650,000</a>, should now be run by administrators. No explanation was given.</div>
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The government in Ankara has come under increasing international criticism over its treatment of journalists.</div>
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The Saturday edition of the newspaper was printed before the government-backed administrators had taken control.</div>
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"The Constitution is suspended," a headline in large font on a black background reads on the front page.</div>
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"The Turkish press has experienced one of the darkest days in its history," the paper adds.</div>
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"Turkey's mass circulation newspaper was seized despite Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's assurance that 'free press is our red line.'"</div>
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The English-language edition echoed its sister paper with the headline: "Shameful day for free press in Turkey."</div>
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Police entered the building in Istanbul late on Friday, firing tear gas at protesters who had gathered outside.</div>
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Hundreds of Zaman supporters defied the police. One held a placard saying, "We will fight for a free press."</div>
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"I believe that free media will continue even if we have to write on the walls," Zaman's editor-in-chief Abdulhamit Bilici said shortly before the raid on Friday. "I don't think it is possible to silence media in the digital age."</div>
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He was speaking to the Cihan news agency, which was also affected by the court order.</div>
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On Saturday afternoon, Zaman's website was still online, and still carried articles that were critical of the government's seizure.</div>
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