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Turkey's latest crackdown on the media and its changing media landscape

Turkey’s parliament approved a bill this week that would effectively ban social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube unless those companies comply with government censorship.  Andrew O’Donohue, the co-author of a recent report on Turkey’s changing media landscape, joins us to break down what this new law means. 

Andrew O'Donohue is the Carl J. Friedrich Fellow and a PhD student in Harvard University’s Department of Government, as well as a nonresident research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

You can read the articles we discuss on the Daily Roundup here:

Turkey issued new rules for social media. That may mean that media censorship wasn’t working.

Turkey’s changing media landscape

Greece moves ahead with deployment of $38 billion EU windfall

Face masks compulsory in enclosed spaces in Greece

Cyprus back to square one

Mandatory use of face masks, children 6 and under exempt

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