When Turks go to the polls on June 7, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hopes his Justice and Development Party - the AKP - will secure enough seats in parliament to change Turkey's constitution.
During the campaign, Erdogan and his Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu have been fixated on the media - accusations, arrests, reporting bans and court convictions against journalists.
Last week, Erdogan publicly accused the editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper of espionage and slammed the New York Times for holding a grudge against him and Turkey itself.
The election will have great influence on the future of Turkish journalism, at least in the short term.
Talking us through the story are: Bulent Kenes, the editor-in-chief of Today's Zaman; Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet; Mehmet Karaca, the Ankara editor-in-chief of ATV; and Besir Atalay, the deputy chair and spokesman for the AKP.
In the second half of the show, Richard Gizbert sits down with Daniel Ellsberg, the first whistleblower prosecuted in US history.
In 1971, Ellsberg gave the so-called Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. He has re-emerged as an advocate for those who want the truth to get out like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.
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