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BOSPHORUS BLOG: Twitter takes over role of traditional media in Turkish protests - BUSINESS NEW EUROPE

BOSPHORUS BLOG: Twitter takes over role of traditional media in Turkish protests

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June 4, 2013

The Turkish media has almost completely ignored the protests in Istanbul – or at least they tried to. On June 3, Turkey's NTV could ignore the protests no more when thousands of protestors pressed up to the station's headquarters and screamed through locked doors at the staff. NTV was thus put in the embarrassing position of having to report on the protests against itself.

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