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Turkey Detains CNN Reporter On Air

posted by NCommander on Monday June 02 2014, @02:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the probably-on-youtube-by-now dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

During an on-air CNN report about how Turkey was stifling dissent on the one-year anniversary of the Taksim Square protests in Istanbul, Turkey proved its point by detaining reporter Ivan Watson in the middle of a broadcast.

Turkey has been making headlines for the Prime Minister's heavy-handed response to social media being used for protest organizing and to expose his own corruption.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday June 02 2014, @06:57AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday June 02 2014, @06:57AM (#50111) Journal

    For those of you who do not know recent history, which seems to include most Americans educated after 1982, Turkey has been the most liberal nation in the Middle East in the modern era. It's military has repeatedly intervened to prevent Islamic radicals from taking over. And they let the US base nuclear missiles on their soil, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. So cut them some slack for trying to suppress free speech. Probably a test run for the USA.

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  • (Score: 3) by Kilo110 on Monday June 02 2014, @08:58AM

    by Kilo110 (2853) on Monday June 02 2014, @08:58AM (#50133)

    Nah. Why bother forcibly taking peoples rights when you can get them to willingly surrender them to you.

    Just supply the children with a steady stream of brain-killing tv. The gullible with scaremongering polarized FUD disguised as "fair and balanced" news. And demoralize the rest with gridlocked congress that wouldn't piss on their constituents if they were on fire.

  • (Score: 2) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday June 03 2014, @06:29PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Tuesday June 03 2014, @06:29PM (#50726)

    The military has been neutered, the people doing the suppressing now are the religious radicals.