Ahmet Cavit AN
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Address: Nicosia-CY
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The “Doğru Yol” newspaper was under the censorship in May 1920, when it published some columns as blank. The owner of “Söz” weekly, Remzi Okan, was put into prison for two months, because he wrote critical articles about Sait Molla, who was a pro-British Ottoman, sent to Cyprus for exile by the Sultan.
The “Masum Millet” newspaper of the advocate M.Rifat also had problem with the censorship of the British in the first years of 1930’s. The Kemalist newspapers, “Söz” and “Ses”, which were using the words “fatherland” and “our Atatürk” frequently, were put under censorship before the Turkish military school ship “Hamidiye” made a visit to the island.
There were also other cases of censorship, when a book on the “Turks of Cyprus”, published in Turkey by an author of Turkish Cypriot origin, was not allowed to be distributed in Cyprus and a film about the funeral of Kemal Atatürk was not given permission to be screened again at the end of 1930’s.
The last closure of a T/C progressive weekly newspaper “İnkılapçı” was in December 1955, when the Emergency Laws were enforced and all the left-wing newspapers in Cyprus were closed.