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Brickbats

Turkish Delights

Charles Oliver | 5.24.2005 12:00 AM

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Turkey's Radio and Television High Council has banned four adult TV channels, including Playboy TV. It says their erotic shows violate legal requirements that programming be "in line with the national, moral, humane, spiritual and cultural values of the Turkish people."

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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