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Source: https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/turkey/.premium-keeping-dissidents-quiet-turkey-s-literary-cleansing-drive-knows-no-rest-1.7949072

Turkey Bans Books to Silence Dissidents

(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - In August, the Turkish Education Ministry reported that since 2016, the year of the attempted coup against President Erdogan, more than 300,000 books have been confiscated and destroyed. Tens of thousands were fired from their jobs in government and at universities, the courts, the media and even kindergartens on suspicion of support for dissident exiled Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen. Last week, eight Kurdish singers, members of two bands that appear at weddings, were arrested for singing in Kurdish. In Turkey it is against the law to study the Kurdish language as part of the official curriculum.

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