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Turkey’s Erdogan: One of the World’s Most Determined Internet Censors - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

Turkey’s Erdogan: One of the World’s Most Determined Internet Censors

As May Day protests flare in Turkey, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan plows ahead with Internet crackdown.

By Joe Parkinson, Sam Schechner, Emre Peker

A woman in Ankara shows her identity card Thursday as riot police used water cannons during clashes with antigovernment protesters.
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ISTANBUL—Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan rode around Google Inc. headquarters last spring in the company’s self-driving car, tried on Google Glass eyewear and vowed to keep digitizing the economy in the country he has ruled since 2003.

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