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Turkey’s lip-reading censors – POLITICO

Turkey’s lip-reading censors

Journalist detentions and rewards for informants: Turkey goes 1984.

By Alev Scott

9/2/15, 3:22 PM CET

ISTANBUL — The detention of three VICE News reporters on charges of terrorist links in eastern Turkey has alarmed the international community, while less widely reported developments — including police raids on domestic media offices, rewards for government informants and the alleged detection of political dissent via lip reading — further reflect an atmosphere of tightening state control in the run-up to November’s snap elections.

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