Twitter rights experts and overseas hubs hit by staff cull * Musk says moderation is a priority as experts voice alarm * Activists fear rising censorship, surveillance on platform By Avi Asher-Schapiro LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the …
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ANKARA, Dec 24 (Reuters) – A Turkish court ordered the release of a journalist held on remand under the country’s new disinformation law after his lawyer objected to his detention, he said. Sinan Aygul became the first person to be jailed pending trial under the law, approved by parliament two months ago, istanbul Lawyer that …
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is on the run from sanctions today and may have fled to Moscow as his two superyachts worth £1billion race for safe Turkish waters after the EU decided to punish the Chelsea owner over Ukraine and he faces a dwindling number of havens for his £12billion of cash and assets. The billionaire oligarch looked grey, tired and …
ISTANBUL, istanbul Turkey Lawyer Law Firm Dec 17 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that courts will correct any mistakes in an appeal process after Istanbul’s opposition mayor was given a jail sentence, and in the meantime Turks had no right to ignore legal rulings. In his first direct comments on Wednesday’s …
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Election likely to produce another fractured parliament * Political parties will struggle to form government * Steep energy and consumer prices, war in Ukraine spook voters By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Bulgarians vote in their fourth national election in less than two years on Sunday, with little hope for a stable government …
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ISTANBUL, Dec 13 (Reuters) – The number of tankers waiting to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean fell to eight on Tuesday from 13 a day earlier, Lawyer Law Firm in istanbul Turkey the Tribeca shipping agency said, in a further easing of the recent build-up in traffic. A Turkish …
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