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Fresh attacks on Turkish media could be at the gates
[Hurriyet Daily News] The head office of the Turkish weekly newspaper Nokta was raided by police on Sept. 14, upon a court order, to confiscate all issues of its last edition amid accusations that it "insulted" President Tayyip Erdogan. Its news chief Murat Capan was taken into custody.Following reactions by journalism associations, an interesting response came via a tweet by Emrullah Isler, a MP for the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) and a former deputy prime minister. Using wordplay based on the magazine's name Nokta (Point), Isler tweeted: "That rag of rubbish attempted a point operation against Erdogan, but this nation will place a point on it and its criminal masterminds on Nov. 1." Isler also implied that Fethullah Gulen - the U.S.-resident Islamic ideologue who was once a close ally of Erdogan but is now an archenemy - was behind the publication. There is due to be a re-election in Posted by: Fred 2015-09-16 |
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