Turkey coup attempt: 'Dozens of media outlets shut'
Source: BBC
Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 45 papers and 15 magazines will be shut.
Separately, nearly 1,700 soldiers have reportedly been discharged.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the authorities ordered the detention of another 47 journalists - just several days after similar warrants were issued for 42 reporters.
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Human rights group Amnesty International says it has received credible evidence of detainees being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, since the coup attempt.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36910556
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)but less enlightened
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)And their racism won't let them even admit it? Imagine us supporting a country that officially denied the holocaust. These people are insane. The suffering of the Armenians is beyond comprehension. I've seen the photos of 5 year old boys heads on stakes every 10 feet for miles as their mothers were forced to march by them in the desert till they collapsed. I wonder if Putin is involved in the coup after they shot his plane down.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)...they want Constantinople back too.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)The bane of our existence.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I doubt there will be a handout of names,...but you never know.