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Azerbaijan: Turan halts operations, authorities require significant staff cuts at BBC and Russian Sputnik
Media restrictions in Azerbaijan Turan, Azerbaijan’s first independent news agency, has announced it is halting operations, with director Mehman Aliyev attributing the decision to longstanding financial difficulties. On the same day, reports emerged that …