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Friday, March 07, 2014

Turkish PM threatens to ban Facebook, YouTube

Turkish PM threatens to ban Facebook, YouTube

By SUZAN FRASER
Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's prime minister has threatened drastic steps to censor the Internet, including shutting down Facebook and YouTube, where audio recordings of his alleged conversations suggesting corruption have been leaked in the past weeks, dealing him a major blow ahead of this month's local elections.

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