News you may have missed #298

• Senior officers charged in Turkey coup plot. One of the world’s most important Muslim countries, which has been called the bridge between Europe and the Middle East, is witnessing a brutal clash between the Islamist government and the secular but anti-democratic military.
• Cryptome online again after Microsoft backs down. On February 24, the freedom-of-information website Cryptome was removed from the Web for refusing to take down a leaked copy of the Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook. But Microsoft’s move backfired, leading instead to widespread attention to (and republication of) the very document it tried to suppress.