Turkey coup attempt: 'Dozens of media outlets shut'

[muriel_volestrangler]

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]

1. back to the days of the Ottoman Empire

but less enlightened

[billhicks76]

2. They Committed The First Modern Genocide

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]

3. Erdogan and Putin are cut from the same cloth, as is Trump nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Meanwhile we have Fundies who not only want their country back,...

...they want Constantinople back too.

[billhicks76]

7. Trust Funders?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Fundies = Fundamentalists.

[billhicks76]

9. Lol

The bane of our existence.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. The sad thing is most of them only know Constantinople from the begining of a Dracula movie....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. The media will be allowed back after the summary executions are over....

I doubt there will be a handout of names,...but you never know.

[Matthew28]

5. No reason for it besides pure evil