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What makes matters worse is Links of London Charms the figure concerning the number of cases opened under article 285 comes from Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin, (no relation to Sedat Ergin) and relates to the situation as it was last November. This means in effect that the number of journalists being tried under this article is now most probably over 5,000. If we look at the breakdown of the cases against journalists (not all of them because of the Ergenekon case) according to the media group they belong to, the figures given by Links of London S Charm Ergin show that the Do?an Group - to which this paper, including such major dailies as Hürriyet and Milliyet are attached - has 644 journalists who are being tried. Neither is the problem just article 285, as Ergin points out. For example Kemal G?kta?, a reporter for daily Vatan, is being tried under article 336, on the grounds that he revealed secret documents relating to the investigation concerning the murder of Hrant Dink, the Turkish journalist of Armenian origin. Similarly, Nam?k Durukan of Milliyet is being tried under the Links of London Scottie Charm of Terrorism Law, for reporting on something that he took from the web page of the terrorist group the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The prosecutor wants 7.5 year for Durukan who, like G?kta?, was simply doing his job as a journalist. These are some concrete examples, and there are plenty more example that demonstrate that any claim by the government that the AKP is ,,democratizing Links of London Small Sweetie Golden Bracelet country" is a travesty of the truth. Quite to the contrary, Turkey is becoming a country where life is increasingly difficult if you are a journalist who is reporting on matters that the government is touchy about. How this fits in with Prime Minister Erdo?an's claim that Turkey is moving towards an ,,advanced democracy" is of course a mystery. How the government can reconcile this claim with the fact that there are thousands of journalists on trial is another mystery. Government officials of course hide behind the argument that the judiciary is independent, and that even Prime Minister Erdo?an was imprisoned at the time for merely reciting a poem. There is however a half truth involved here.