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Ban on Wikipedia leaves Turks fretting as censorship intensifies under Erdogan
Published Mon, Jun 12, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Istanbul
BARIS Dede, a game design student, had a question: how easily did Viking longboats glide through the water? Dilara Diner, a psychologist, wanted to double-check a symptom of hysteria.
But these Turks were not able to quickly find out what they wanted. Since late April, the Turkish government has blocked one of the world's go-to sources of online information, Wikipedia.
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