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Erdoğan's ‘new Turkey' governed by cyber militia

Erdoğan's ‘new Turkey' governed by cyber militia

Illustration: Cem Kızıltuğ
August 31, 2014, Sunday/ 05:40:23/ AHMET DÖNMEZ / ANKARA

A group of behind-the-scene individuals from social media, websites and some other media outlets receive orders from a “small oligarchic elite” at the top of the bureaucracy to immediately launch defamation campaigns and character assassinations against people and give the final word on many issues in the “new Turkey."

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