As clock ticks down on Turkey’s Sozcu TV, is Erdogan muting opposition?

ANKARA — A digital clock appeared on Turkey’s pro-opposition Sozcu TV, counting down the hours — 12 and ticking — toward going off the air. The channel faces a possible 10-day blackout widely viewed as a fresh front in the country’s intensifying crackdown on dissent.

“When the clock strikes 12 [5:00 p.m. ET], Sozcu TV will go off the air,” Serap Belovacikli, an anchorwoman at the channel, told her viewers earlier Tuesday. “But will we give up? No! We will not stop being your…