Turkish politics
Taken hostage
A kidnapping becomes a pretext for a crackdown on social media
Apr 11th 2015 | ANKARA | From the print edition
ON MARCH 31st two members of DHKP-C, a Marxist revolutionary group, strolled into Istanbul’s main courthouse disguised as lawyers and armed with guns and hand grenades, and took a prosecutor hostage. Hours later the prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, boasted that security forces had conducted a “successful” operation, killing both gunmen.
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