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February 10, 2014 01:45 am GMT
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Journalist Deported From Turkey for Slamming Government on Twitter
A journalist in Turkey was sent back to Azerbaijan on Feb. 7 for tweets that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan felt crossed the line of government criticism.
Just over a month ago, Erdoğan filed a criminal complaint against Mahir Zeynalov because his Twitter feed was full of blistering blurbs that slammed Erdoğan for a corruption scandal that has consumed his government, caused three members of his cabinet to resign and consumed headlines across the nation.
More about Twitter, Government, Turkey, Us World, and PoliticsErdoğan is destroying the Turkish democracy he built https://t.co/D3vJpyW7Eq #YalanRüzgarı
— Mahir Zeynalov (@MahirZeynalov) December 30, 2013 Read more...
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