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Turkey Wants Ban on Mocking Its Leader Enforced Abroad Too

Turkey Wants Ban on Mocking Its Leader Enforced Abroad Too

NOW THAT that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has nearly completed a crackdown on dissent at home — closing down opposition newspapersprosecuting students for joking on Twitter about officials, and putting journalists on trial — he seems intent on silencing critics in other countries as well.

After the president arrived in Washington on Tuesday night, his security team got right to work, harassing protesters and journalists outside his hotel, as writers for one of the papers recently shuttered by Erdogan’s government noted.

Erdogan’s guards try to silence protesters in DC by shouting louder meaninglessly. A taste of Erdogan regime in USA https://twitter.com/AtillaTasNet/status/715121684651589632 

Erdogan’s rubber-stamp editor @ibrahimkaragul attacks reporter @ihsandenli in Washington.


Turkish president Erdogan’s security guards attack journalists outside his hotel in  – common practice


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