Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Turkish media ban on ISIS reports

On June 15, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the media not to write or talk about the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which seized Turkey’s consulate on June 11 in Mosul, in northern Iraq, taking all 49 consulate workers hostage, including the consul general. Erdogan claimed that the media’s reporting puts the hostages’ lives at risk.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/daloglu-media-mosul-hostages-isis-erdogan-iraq-consulate.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter##ixzz351dmAxkv

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