Turkey’s media organizations have been banned from reporting on a parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations concerning four former ministers of Cabinet. Although the ban is unprecedented for a parliamentary inquiry, over 150 gag orders have been issued regarding the investigations of prosecutors in the last four years, according to Hürriyet reporter Zeynep Gürcanlı. Here are 10 of them:
1) Turkey’s massive graft investigation
2) The ISIL raid on Turkey’s Mosul consulate
3) The tapping of the Turkish Foreign Ministry (
Davutoglu false-flag operation)
4) The deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s history
5) The bugging of Erdoğan’s office
6) The stopping of Syria-bound MİT trucks In February, (a ban was imposed on the publication of reports about a search of two trucks – allegedly carrying weapons belonging to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) – that were bound for Syria.)
7) Deadly attacks on security forces
8) The Uludere air strike
9) The worst mining disaster
10) The football match-fixing scandal
The 13th Istanbul Court of Serious Crimes ruled for a media ban in August 2011 on the publication of testimonies and audio evidence in a massive match-fixing investigation involving two professional Turkish football clubs.