Turkey’s Erdogan clamps down further on media amid coronavirus crisis
By DW
21 April 2020 |
12:44 pm
The Turkish president seems to be using the coronavirus crisis as a pretext to get rid of the few critical media outlets left in his country. Opposition politicians and journalists fear a new spate of censorship.
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