10 Shameful Facts About Censorship In Turkey

Jeremy Bender

 

Turkey has a long tradition of censorship that culminated this week in a ban on Twitter that has infuriated the international community.

Below we have compiled some of the most egregious examples of censorship in Turkey, starting with the most recent one.

We Are All Oxymorons!

Ayda Erbal

(Author’s note: There are a number of issues -particularly the segment re: Stockholm Syndrome that I changed my mind later. I think the entire situation of Istanbul Armenians can be better explained by political expediency -itself a result of a survival strategy, rather than a generally inflicted syndrome. It does not mean the psychological does not have any effect, it only means that the effect of the political is much more overarching and meaningful. This claim obviously requires a much more substantiated longitudinal comparative analysis that goes well beyond this short introductory attempt.)