Erdoğan has applied, to Turkish journalists, the US system of arbitrarily labeling organizations as "terrorist" and making it a crime just to be members of them.

The US did a great wrong to the world by legitimizing this tool of tyranny in the "land of the free". Your bowling club could be labeled "terrorist" tomorrow without a trial, and you could then be prosecuted for belonging to it; the only question for the court to consider would be whether you are really a member.

Whether an organization is labeled "terrorist" has sometimes become a political decision, as in the case of the Mujahideen Khalq.

To label an organization as terrorist should require a trial.