Grieving Turks began sharing old tweets and videos embarrassing for the government. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Turkish officials learned that the hard way when grieving users began sharing old tweets and videos embarrassing for the government afterOne clip shows President Recep Tayyip Erdogan congratulating officials for adopting an amnesty law in 2018 forgiving faults in nearly six million buildings that failed safety regulations.
But those comments, while well-received by people who avoided losing their homes at the time, now look ill-conceived.in the earthquake-prone region explain the huge death toll, which has climbed above 38,000 in Turkey and approached 3,700 in Syria. Following a media crackdown, “newspapers destroyed their archives to remove certain words they used in the past and that they now consider improper”, Mr Uzunoglu added.
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