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Turkey Blocks Twitter, YouTube Access Over Image of Slain Prosecutor

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-likes-for-you dept.

jaa101 writes ABC (Australia) reports Turkey has blocked access to Twitter and YouTube, over the publication of photographs of an Istanbul prosecutor held at gunpoint by far-left militants hours before he was killed in a shootout last week. From the article: "Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said a prosecutor had sought the block on access to social media sites because some media organisations had acted 'as if they were spreading terrorist propaganda' in sharing the images. 'This has to do with the publishing of the prosecutor's picture. What happened in the aftermath [of the prosecutor's killing] is as grim as the incident itself,' said presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin."

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  1. Re:Stupid by oodaloop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Turkey is a secular democracy. Moron.

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  2. MUhahahaha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    By now it is quickly turning into the Sunni bastardism of the Wahabists, who are behind Erdogan.

  3. Re:Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Turkey was somewhat enlightened under the rule of the army. These days are over now that the Saudi-paid Erdogan has jailed a serious portion of the officer corps and the journalists.

    Back into Sunni stone age at lightspeed. There is NO SUCH THING as a Mohammedic Democracy.