Actually, it’s the opposite. The egos in power in the lands of Turks and pup-Turks seem to have absolutely no shame. They are UN-abashedly pushing forward with actions and policies negatively impacting freedom of speech that are discrediting Turkey and Azerbaijan. This piece is not meant to repeat what the editors of both Asbarez and The Armenian Weekly have written commentaries about, media repression in those countries, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. In Turkey, aside from the ongoing post-2016-coup repression, sultanization-of-ErdoÄŸan, and the continuing persecution of Kurds, numerous other public relations (at least) disasters are grabbing the world’s attention. Obviously, the big news is the government’s blocking of Wikipedia. Now, citizens of Turkey are deprived of access to what may well be the world’s single largest source of data, knowledge, and information. This should come as no surprise given Ankara’s history of blocking or otherwise cracking down on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Drawing less attention are two other fiascoes which are of greater relevance to Armenians. Turkey and diasporized Turks are making fools of themselves attacking and attempting to discredit “The Promise”
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