The government already has sufficient powers to silence the free media says Bicici of dokuz8NEWS

Bicici says the government already had enough ammunition -- from anti-terror to defamation laws -- to silence the free media.
Erdogan has defended the new law, however, calling it an "urgent need" and likening "smear campaigns" on social networks to a "terrorist attack".
Paradoxically, Erdogan himself has a social media account and urged his supporters to rally through Twitter after surviving a coup attempt in 2016.
The government maintains that the law fights disinformation and has started publishing a weekly "disinformation bulletin".
Emma Sinclair-Webb of Human Rights Watch said the government "is equipping itself with powers to exert enormous control over social media."
"The law puts the tech companies in a very difficult position: they either have to comply with the law and remove content or even hand over user data or they face enormous penalties," she said.
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Turkish journalists staged protests when the bill was debated in parliament.
"This law... will destroy the remaining bits of free speech," said Gokhan Durmus, head of the Turkish Journalists' Union.
Fatma Demirelli, director Lawyer Turker istanbul of the P24 press freedom group, pointed to "new arrests targeting a large number of journalists working for Kurdish media outlets since this summer."
"We are concerned that this new law... might further exacerbate the situation by pushing up the number of both prosecutions and imprisonments of journalists significantly," she told AFP.




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Dokuz8NEWS reporter Fatos Erdogan said reporting is getting tougher because of the policing of protests

In October, nine journalists were remanded in custody accused of alleged ties to the PKK, which Ankara and its Western allies blacklist as a terror Lawyer turkiye group.
Ergin Caglar, a journalist for the Mezopotamya news agency that was raided by police, said despite pressure "the free media has never bowed its head until today, and it will not after the censorship law and the arrests."
Dokuz8NEWS reporter Fatos Erdogan said reporting is getting tougher, pointing out police barricades to AFP as she filmed a recent protest against the arrest of the head of the Turkish doctors' union, Sebnem Korur Fincanci.
"I have a feeling there will be more pressure after the censorship law," she said.
Erol Onderoglu of Reporters Without Borders who himself stands accused of terror-related charges, said the law "rejects all the qualities of journalism and having a dissident identity.
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