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Kurdish message of peace stifled by Turkish censorship
The Peace in Kurdistan campaign explains how President Erdogan is more interested in trampling the Kurds than fighting Isis
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DAYS ago, the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign’s website was blocked to users in Turkey in the latest government crackdown on Kurdish and pro-Kurdish news and media.
As part of a broad attack on internet freedom, 77 million websites hosted by Wordpress.com were temporarily blocked under Turkey’s Internet Law 5651. After Wordpress challenged the ban, the Turkish government lifted restrictions on the majority of sites, leaving just five — which included peaceinkurdistancampaign.com and four other pro-Kurdish sites — inaccessible inside Turkey. Wordpress’s appeal to the courts regarding our site and the others is still pending.
The move came as the Turkish air force’s heavy bombardment of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) sites in northern Iraq and Rojava, the first such strike since 2011, threatened to put a definitive end to the more than two-year peace process.
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