Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Welcome to Turkey, where a typo in a tweet can land you in prison - Vox

Welcome to Turkey, where a typo in a tweet can land you in prison

Updated by Dara Lind on April 30, 2014, 1:40 p.m. ET @DLind dara@vox.com

In Turkey, mistyping a tweet can get you in prison — at least if you're someone the government wants to send to prison to begin with.

In Turkey in 2012, during a political battle over shutting down private schools, columnist and investigative journalist Onder Aytac published this tweet:

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