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Turkey Blocks Twitter, YouTube Access Over Image of Slain Prosecutor
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."
Turkey is a secular democracy. Moron.
For a long time Turkey was secular, but not much of a democracy. The generals called the shots. Then as it became more democratic, and it turned out that secularism wasn't much of a vote winner. It is still mostly secular, but many people, including the governing party, are trying to make it more Islamist.
On paper, maybe. Ataturk would be rotating in his grave if he saw what this old moron made out of what he fought for.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.