Forget Facebook: Turkey Is Moving to Control All Content
- New law extends reach of country’s radio and TV censor to web
- Erdogan ally in talks to buy biggest independent media holding
People walk in front of a poster of Turkish President Recet Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on April 6, 2017.
Photographer: Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images
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Turkey, already the world’s leading jailer of journalists, is squeezing what little independence is left out of its battered media.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is widening the powers of its aggressive radio and television censor to include the internet just as 81-year-old billionaire Aydin Dogan starts talks to sell Turkey’s largest private media company to a group of Erdogan loyalists, ending years of harassment by authorities.