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Erdogan’s Next Target as He Restricts Turkey’s Democracy: The Internet

posted by janrinok on Monday March 05 2018, @05:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the more-you-tighten-your-grip dept.

canopic jug writes:

Turkey, positioned geopgraphically on the edge of Europe and politically inside of NATO, has been heading in a troubling direction for some time in regards to speech. Crackdowns on dissent and even open speech are increasing and Internet communications are the specific focus of some of the recent actions. Coming up is legislation intended to curb the Internet (WWW) in ways similar to how television and radio have already been limited:

Having already brought Turkey's mainstream media to heel, and made considerable headway in rolling back Turkish democracy, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has set its sights on a seemingly innocuous target: a satellite television preacher named Adnan Oktar.

[...] "It is just about control," said Kerem Altiparmak, a human rights and media lawyer. "Considering what has been happening in Turkey, I have no doubt this is a hegemonic power, controlling newspapers, TV and the judiciary, that is now out to control the [I]nternet sector."

All the restrictions are made that much easier through increased use of and dependence on centralized services like Facebook by the remaining opposition.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:28AM (#648418)

    I feel like a Trumpist for saying this, but it does make sense to me. Some say we need to have "strange bedfellows" because of "realpolitik", but we tried that with Afghanistan and Iraq in the 80s and look where it got us. If we're going to help anyone in the mideast, it really seems like the Kurds are the best ones, with values closest to our own

    Except Turkey is like to kill Kurds and support Jihadists. Like Pakistan, for example, which also likes to sponsor Taliban and related idiots.

    This is not "realpolitik". This is *reality*. US once tended to at least put a veneer of "human rights" in what it did. But now, you have Trump praising dictators instead and wanting to break up EU because it's too powerful and can't be swept under the rug. With dictators, you can sway them by just talking to them. With institutions like EU, you have to have "rules" and "regulations" which actually don't like dictators.

    As for Afghanistan and Iraq? Is that it? How about Saudi Arabia? Panama, Chile, Guatemala? Heck, rest of South America. How about Iran? How about Vietnam? Cambodia? Israel? The list is loooong. And US has its fingers everywhere.

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