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Turkish parliament to vote on controversial social media law

by Associated Press
| July 28, 2020 9:27 AM

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish lawmakers were making their final speeches Tuesday before voting on a bill that would give the government greater powers to regulate social media, in what human rights groups and the opposition have decried as a violation of free expression online.

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