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The Times: Erdogan clamps down on social media to close the last outlet for opposition journalists

2020-12-11T01:02:20.676Z


London-SANA A new report revealed the extent of the violations of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan regime, which it is practicing in various forms


London - Sana

A new report revealed the extent of the violations of the Recep Tayyip Erdogan regime, which it is practicing towards freedoms in all its forms within the framework of its continuous policies to suppress opponents, shutting mouths, and strengthening its grip on power in Turkey.

In this context, a report by the British Times newspaper indicated that the campaign of repression that Erdogan has been continuing for years has led to restrictions on social media, which have become the alternative media outlet for Turkish journalists who oppose him after they lost the traditional media outlets that Erdogan's agents deliberately bought and owned and expelled the opposition journalists.

Despite the apprehension of human rights organizations and the press, and their assertion that the Turkish regime's authorities are restricting freedoms, Erdogan's parliament approved last July a repressive law expanding the censorship of social networks, which Human Rights Watch considered “heralds a bleak period of internet censorship” in Turkey.

"Turkish Twitter is full of myths, conspiracy and disinformation theories broadcast by supporters of Erogan, but it also represents the lifeblood of freedom of expression in the media landscape in Turkey, which is increasingly tinted with a single-vision official character," Hama Smith, the newspaper's Istanbul correspondent, said in her report.

She added that this "caused a conflict between Erdogan and the giant technology companies after the opposition journalists who were expelled from newspapers bought by Erdogan's allies regrouped in online news sites such as" Mediascope "and" T24 "and many others who spread their news stories to millions of their followers.

Smith cited samples of followers of these sites who said that they are following social media for many hours of the day to measure the reliability of the reports broadcast by the Turkish media channels of the Turkish regime, which they assert that they do not reflect the Turkish reality in which they live.

Others who go to Twitter with 13.6 million other Turkish users, who make up the sixth largest nationality on the site, which is a news channel from outside the country, said that through these means they can say things that they cannot say anywhere else and that it is the only window that transmits interviews with politicians Opposition and broadcast news that has been blackouted on official channels.

Erdogan took advantage of the coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 to impose a state of emergency in the country and launch a crackdown on his opponents that affected hundreds of journalists who were held in the regime's detention centers and were subjected to trials on trumped-up charges related to terrorism.

Recep Erdogan's regime, with the support of a certain judicial authority from its supporters, seized the Ceyhan News Agency, the largest private agency in Turkey, just days after it occupied the headquarters of Zaman, the country's most widespread newspaper, in 2016.

The new campaign of the Erdogan regime against Ceyhan and Zaman newspaper comes after a similar campaign against Cumhuriyet newspaper, whose security services arrested its editor-in-chief Jan Dundar and its office manager in Ankara, Erdem Gul, and charged them with “spying and creating a parallel entity” because they published videos showing that his intelligence services transported weapons. And ammunition to terrorists in Syria under the guise of humanitarian aid.

It is noteworthy that the International Committee to Protect Journalists has ranked Turkey as the first country in the world to suppress press freedoms and imprison journalists.

Source: sena

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