Turkey introduces jail terms for 'disinformation'

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday passed a law proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that would make it possible to jail journalists and social media users for up to three years for spreading “disinformation.”

The Council of Europe said the measure’s vague definition of “disinformation” and accompanying threat of jail could have a “chilling effect and increased self-censorship, not least in view of the upcoming elections in June 2023.”

The law’s Article 29 raised the most concerns over…