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Turkey’s media watchdog bans Mosul hostage crisis reports

Arab World Materials 17 June 2014 15:34 (UTC +04:00)
Turkey’s media watchdog bans Mosul hostage crisis reports
Turkey’s media watchdog bans Mosul hostage crisis reports

Turkey's media watchdog has delivered a court ruling to newspapers, television and websites on June 17, announcing a broadcast and publication ban on reports relating to the kidnappings of Turkish citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Hurriyet Daily News reported

Some 49 members of Turkey's Mosul Consulate and 31 truck drivers were kidnapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after they seized Mosul late June 9. One of the Turkish drivers managed to escape over the weekend.

According to the June 16 ruling of the Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK), issued by the 9th Heavy Penal Court in Ankara, the ban will continue until the investigation to "secure the Turkish citizens who were in Turkey's Mosul Consulate and were taken by the terrorist organization ISIL to an unknown location [is completed]."

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