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Shameful Examples Emerge Of Press Censorship in Turkey - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Shameful Examples Emerge Of Press Censorship in Turkey

Each time a political crisis embarrasses Turkey’s government, the noose around the freedom of the Turkish press gets a bit tighter.

In February, the daily Milliyet faced Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wrath when it published the minutes of a meeting between three parliament members and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan on the prison island of Imrali, held as part of Ankara’s Kurdish peace drive.

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