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Critics question Turkey’s hosting of international internet forum
Turkey was always going to be a contentious venue for this year’s internet governance forum which aims to encourage use of the web.
During the past 12 months, the country’s record on internet freedoms has been judged as ‘abysmal’ by Human Rights Watch.
But as the UN-backed forum opened, participants held back from criticising the Turkish government directly.
Assistant Secretary-General of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Thomas Gass, said:
“The human rights apply the same wa…
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