It is not surprising that Turkey, which has in the past used censorship against Armenians and Kurds, is now experiencing censorship as restrictions on free speech used against one group are doomed to spread to others.
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange stated the aforesaid at the Internet Ungovernance Forum held in Istanbul, reported Today’s Zaman daily of Turkey.
Taking part in the video-conference from the Embassy of Ecuador in London, Assange recalled that past censoring of the arguments of Turkey’s Kurds and those of Armenians, who state that the mass killings of 1915 amount to genocide, had been met with silence.
“It seems clear to me that Turkish media freedom is going down,” he noted adding that Turkey currently has the highest number of journalists in prison.
