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Turkey’s authoritarian leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has accused his strongest political rival, İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, of “spying for the British” — a claim that many observers see as part of a broader campaign to silence dissent. At the same time the government has seized one of the country’s few remaining independent broadcasters, TELE1, and immediately disabled access to its digital archive and YouTube channel — a symbolic act of erasing collective memory.

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