{"id":19341,"date":"2016-03-31T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19341"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:55:11","slug":"turkey-wants-ban-on-mocking-its-leader-enforced-abroad-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19341","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Wants Ban on Mocking Its Leader Enforced Abroad Too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkey Wants Ban on Mocking Its Leader Enforced Abroad Too<\/a><\/h3>\n
NOW THAT\u00a0that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has nearly completed a crackdown on dissent at home \u2014\u00a0closing down opposition newspapers<\/a>,\u00a0prosecuting students for joking on Twitter about officials<\/a>, and\u00a0putting journalists on trial<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 he seems intent on\u00a0silencing critics in other countries as well.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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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\u2019s government noted.<\/p>\n