(MENAFN) Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday blamed the West of approving "double standards" on freedom of media.
Talking at the 7th Anatolian Media Awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan announced: "Those accusing Türkiye of censorship remain silent about those (Twitter) doing real censorship.
"We are witnessing the same double standard in the process of a social media company, which has been recently taken over," Erdogan added, mentioning Twitter and the latest announcement of its internal files.
He added: "With whom this social media platform, which supposedly never compromises on freedom and personal privacy, does business with, what it serves behind the scenes, and how it censors people and ideas that it does not like are revealed one by one."
He, on the other hand, stated the two global media organs and human rights organizations are silent on such scandals.
"Those who usurped the right of communication of billions of people continue to talk about democracy and freedoms as if nothing happened," he continued.
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