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Roboski Poem Used in Internet Service Provider Ad

Roboski Poem Used in Internet Service Provider Ad

The line “My heart must dry out if I forget it” from İbrahim Halil Baran’s poem on the killing of 34 civilians after a Turkish military airstrike in Roboski was used in the ad of an internet service provider company.

10 December 2014 İsa Uğur Erdoğan

The Anatomy of Vagina Censorship in Turkey

The Anatomy of Vagina Censorship in Turkey

Wikipedia’s entry in Turkish for “vagina” has been censored. However, both service provider, telecommunication authorities and service providers union deny the situation, leaving the actor and reason of the censorship as mystery.

18 November 2014 Elif Akgül