It took almost 6 months of badgering for that to finally happen though, despite an extensive and widely signed (by experts) op-ed pointing out how wrong and dangerous it was barely a week after the original article was published, and calls for corrections/retractions started within days if not hours.
> given the frequent failure of other newspapers to publish a prominent apology when they have got things far more wrong than this.
Getting things "far more wrong" matters less when it doesn't put lives at stakes, and you don't need to believe me on that, this correction article makes that point:
> During the review I independently confirmed that a Turkish government official had used the article when, in effect, attempting to deter users from WhatsApp.