The Long Arm of Turkey’s Global Media Censorship

 

A woman holds a baby to her chest as she and others cover their ears and run from a blast on a street.

Few countries have been as relentless in their efforts to silence discussions of the past in foreign film and TV.

By Katherine Kelaidis, a research associate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in the United Kingdom and the author of Holy Russia? Holy War?: Why the Russian Church is Backing Putin Against Ukraine.

Last September, under pressure from the Turkish government, Netflix agreed to release one of its new series only in Greece and Cyprus. Famagusta depicts the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The protagonists of the series—a co-production between Greek and Cypriot companies—are Greek Cypriots, and the show is broadly sympathetic to them. Turkish officials insisted that Famagusta was nothing more than pro-Greek propaganda and began a campaign to prevent global audiences from watching it.

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