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Turkey: Dangerous surge in censorship liable to exacerbate crisis
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Publisher:  Reporters Without Borders
Date Written:  17/09/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

In the latest alarming development for freedom of information in Turkey, prosecutors in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy today began investigating one of the country’s biggest media groups, DoÄŸan, for alleged terrorist propaganda.

Abstract:  In the latest alarming development for freedom of information in Turkey, prosecutors in the Istanbul district of Bakırköy today began investigating one of the country’s biggest media groups, DoÄŸan, for alleged terrorist propaganda.

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The move followed raids on the newspaper Nokta and the blocking of the daily Cumhuriyet’s website in what appears to be an all-out drive to censor the government’s media critics.

In response to a report five days ago in the...
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