Category: Censorship
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Turkey blocks access to Deutsche Welle and Voice of America | AP News
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of U.S. public service broadcaster Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, prompting criticism of censorship. The Supreme Board of Radio and Television enforced a February decision requiring international media that air television content in Turkish online to apply for a…
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Turkey’s troll networks | Heinrich Böll Stiftung
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The initial group of Ak-trolls were, for the most part, bot accounts active on Twitter that shared computer-generated posts alongside a hashtag in favour of Erdoğan and his government’s policies. These accounts would create tweets using the hashtag and also interact/retweet with tweets using the same hashtags. A 2016 study published by the cyber security…
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Painting of Turkey’s President Erdogan with a banana up his buttocks sparks anger at German art fair – South China Morning Post
A German artist complained Friday after a gallery took down his depiction of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a banana in his buttocks. Thomas Baumgaertel’s provocative painting, Turkish dictator, sparked noisy complaints and protests at an art fair in Karlsruhe, 38 miles (60km) northwest of Stuttgart. Amid the row, the fair’s organisers tweeted that it…
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Berat’s Box – Berat Albayrak 57,934 Emails – Internet Archive
Today, Monday 5 December 2016, WikiLeaks publishes an authoritative, searchable archive of 57,934 emails from the personal email address of Berat Albayrak, who is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Turkey’s Minister of Energy. The emails span sixteen years from April 2000 to 23 September of this year (including the 15 July coup d’état) and…