The Turkish Government continues to prove that there is no true democracy in their country. This time it has reinforced its heavily criticized suppression on social media, blocking the access to Twitter, Youtube and Facebook. As Daily News reports, this decision was made because of the publication of photos showing a prosecutor who was taken hostage by militants in Istanbul last week.
Besides these, three world’s largest media websites, there are also other links to the stories published by Turkish newspapers. As Hurriyet reports, authorities were ordered to block approximately 166 websites that published the controversial photos. On April 1, about 13 media organizations and journalists who had published photos showing Kiraz, the prosecutor, as a hostage were banned to participate in the press conference and the funeral ceremony.
As it was previously mentioned, members of a far-left Turkish group took the prosecutor in the controversial case of the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan hostage on Thursday, killing his two captors. Thereon, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) had published a picture of the prosecutor with a gun to his head and said he would kill him unless his demands were met.