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Turkish PM acknowledges phone call to media executive

Turkish PM acknowledges phone call to media executive

ANKARA

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has acknowledged that he called a media executive at the height of the Gezi protests to order the removal of news content, days after an alleged phone transcript of the exchanged was leaked online, sparking anger over political pressure on the media.

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