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Amnesty on Turkish media crackdown: 'Disinformation flourishes when media landscape's narrowed down'
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The state takeover of Halk TV, one of Turkey’s most widely watched news channels, represents far more than an isolated confrontation between the authorities and an independent broadcaster. For Milena Buyum, Amnesty International’s Turkey campaigner, it is part of a broader erosion of media pluralism
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20 Oct 08:44
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Amnesty on Turkish media crackdown: 'Disinformation flourishes when media landscape's narrowed down'
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