Turkey tightens internet controls as gov't battles graft scandal

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Turkey's Parliament has approved Internet controls enabling web pages to be blocked within hours in what the opposition decried as part of a government bid to stifle a corruption scandal with methods more suited to "times of coups."

Members of opposition parties have lashed out.. Read more.

Today's Zaman

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