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Turkish Media Face Over 150 Gagging Orders

Saturday 30 May 2015
Turkish Media Face Over 150 Gagging Orders
Alwaght- Over 150 gagging orders in the last four years were issued to Turkish media.
Hürriyet news paper, counts following ten issues out of 150 that prevent Turkish media from reporting on:
1. Turkey's massive graft investigation of Dec. 17, 2013 that was the most controversial case of corruption probe.
2. The ISIS raid on Turkey's Mosul consulate, in which some 49 members of Turkey’s consulate in Mosul and 31 truck drivers were kidnapped.
3. The tapping of the Turkish Foreign Ministry that was  The audio recordings of a top-secret national security meeting on Syria in the offices of the Turkish foreign minister were leaked via YouTube on March 27.
4. The deadliest terror attack in Turkey's history, in which 52 people were killed in the southern town of Reyhanlı on May 11, 2013.
5. The bugging of Erdoğan's office that says bugging devices allegedly found in the office of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
6. The stopping of two Syria-bound trucks, carrying weapons belonging to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT).
7. Deadly attacks on security forces, in October, three Turkish soldiers, and two policemen were killed in separate attacks.
8. The Uludere air strike, carried out in the Uludere district of Şırnak province on Dec. 28, 2011, 34 civilian villagers were killed.
9. The worst mining disaster, in which 301 workers were killed in a mine accident in the western town of Soma in May
10. The football match-fixing scandal that was the massive match-fixing investigation involving two professional Turkish football clubs.

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