ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s primary opposition celebration used to the nation’s supreme court on Tuesday lookingfor a suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates jail terms for individuals considered to be spreadingout “disinformation.”
Last week, parliament authorized a 40-article legislation that modifies press and social media laws with the mentioned objective of combating phony news. Critics worry that the step will be utilized to evenmore fracture down on social media and independent reporting as the nation heads towards elections.
The legislation, which was authorized with the votes of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s judgment celebration and its nationalist allies, came into result with its publication in the Official Gazette earlier on Tuesday.
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