Netflix has yanked an episode of “Designated Survivor” in which a fictitious Turkish president is portrayed as a villain from its service in Turkey. “Following a demand from the T…
“Following a demand from the Turkish regulator, we have removed one episode of ‘Designated Survivor’ from Netflix in Turkey only,” the streaming giant said in a statement on Thursday.
Turkish censors requested the pull-down of episode seven of season two of “Designated Survivor.” It features a fictitious Turkish President named Fatih Turan, played by Troy Caylak, who comes under fire from the country’s opposition while he is in the U.S. to attend a NATO Summit where he meets with U.S. president Tom Kirkman, the show’s lead character, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
Netflix’s compliance with the Turkish government’s order to pull the show’s sensitive episode is in line with the company’s policy of complying with local regulators in order to be present in a country., there have been nine previous instances in which the streamer has bowed to censors around the world.
In 2017 Netflix complied with a demand from the Vietnamese broadcasting authority to remove Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam war drama “Full Metal Jacket” from the service in Vietnam only.
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