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The protests in Turkey have put the role of the media in Turkey into the spotlight. 主播大秀 World Service has suspended its partnership with NTV and the government has been criticizing social media鈥檚 role.

Over to You explores the media and Turkey, with the help of Behrouz Afagh, head of the World Service Asia and Pacific region, the social media expert Mark Little of Storyful, and from Istanbul writer Emre Mirza. What does the upsurge in Twitter activity and the government鈥檚 reaction to social media have to say about the wider impact of media in such protests?

(Image: A Turkish protestor uses Facebook, Credit: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)