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iterationx | 11 years ago

The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.

The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".

In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/turkey-youtube-ban-full-transcript-...

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MisterWebz|11 years ago

> The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.

Quite an understatement. Some of the news outlets deemed it unnecessary to mention what was said in the leaked tapes and instead referred to it as a "military strategy".

tomjen3|11 years ago

Great find, but unfortunately often there is a good reason that such things don't get mentioned much, because there isn't much evidence for it.

How trushworthy is ibtimes?

iterationx|11 years ago

The reason they banned youtube is because the evidence was on youtube. You need to re-evaluate your assumptions.