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Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech
A Turkish law enacted last May to prevent access to pornographic content on line, has been used to block 612 sites this year. Such measures has been taken on entire sites like Blogger and YouTube where some... 13 Arrested in 'Plot to kill' Nobel Laureate
The Guardian reports that more than a dozen people have been arrested in connection with a planned assassination of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk is an internationally respected author and...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Turkey by numbers #2: The military's trigger-happy résumé
ISTANBUL: Turkey is in the midst of a coup process. That is if you take, as a general consensus, the analyses of certain sections of the Turkish press over the last two months. If the meaning of a coup...
created by Jim Colella | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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766 views | 20 recommendations | 3 comments
Turkey by numbers #1: Publish and be damned
ISTANBUL: After two years of living on Turkish soil and witnessing the unprecedented series of events unfold here in recent months, not to mention the scarily irresponsible and seriously uninformed...
created by Jim Colella | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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911 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
"Turkishness" or Freedom of Expression: Turkeys long Path into the EU
"Four Turks have been acquitted of insulting "Turkishness" in their translation of a book by prominent American writer Noam Chomsky."
created by conneticutkati | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Turkish Pamuk Wins Nobel Literature Prize
"STOCKHOLM — Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, author half-a-dozen novels, won the prestigious Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, October 12, for a body of work that probes the crossroads of Muslim and Western cultures."Nobel Prize for Literature goes toTurkish author Pamuk
Daily News "In what amounts to a first for a Turkish author, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006 was awarded today to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. "
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