Turkey: State TV ”censors” Lennon’s Imagine

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ANKARA – An incomplete translation of John Lennon’s song Imagine during Turkish state TV coverage of the Olympics closing ceremony has the country’s independent media and secular opposition up in arms.

A reporter from state-run TRT television translated the famous song live, but omitted the last part of the lyrics when he came to the lines ”Imagine… nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too.” Oversight or censorship? (…)

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