Turkey’s government takes new powers to censor the internet

TURKEY’s conspiracy theorists have had their hands full of late, uncovering the dark powers responsible for the collapse of the country’s currency, which has lost almost a fifth of its value against the dollar this year, attempts by foreigners to murder President Recep Tayyip Erdogan using telekinesis, and a coup attempt set in motion by a biscuit commercial. Now they have exposed a new plot—produced by Netflix. In early April, days after the streaming company released a new trailer for “Casa de Papel”, a popular series, a pro-government journalist concluded the video contained “subliminal messages” intended to trigger “an economic coup d’état, political assassinations, a wave of terror attacks, or a new treacherous scheme containing them all”. A former mayor of Ankara, the capital, immediately linked the show’s theme song to demonstrations which rocked Turkey in 2013, and called on the authorities to investigate. Weeks later, another pundit suggested that the series was to blame for...Continue reading

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