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Turkey’s Media War

The dispute is really a political matter—yet another attempt by Erdogan and the AKP to neuter a bastion of opposition.

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  • Posted By: wantedturk @ 09/23/2008 8:08:57 PM

    Dogan groups only aim is to lie about the government and make up things. This court case has nothing to do with the AK Party. But what Dogan group is trying to do is theyre trying to put the AK Party into this court case by make fake news. There are many examples of Dogan groups fake news like once they translated an article wrong from an english newspaper and translation was opposite of what was in there. If you can understand you can see that most of these news are fake and i would like to tell soner cagaptay not to use fake words like "Islamist" when talking about "deniz feneri"

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  • Posted By: wantedturk @ 09/23/2008 8:08:16 PM

    Dogan groups only aim is to lie about the government and make up things. This court case has nothing to do with the AK Party. But what Dogan group is trying to do is theyre trying to put the AK Party into this court case by make fake news. There are many examples of Dogan groups fake news like once they translated an article wrong from an english newspaper and translation was opposite of what was in there. If you can understand you can see that most of these news are fake and i would like to tell soner cagaptay not to use fake words like "Islamist" when talking about "deniz feneri"

  • Posted By: bayer64 @ 09/21/2008 11:31:01 AM

    Devil is in the details.
    Question; who is "the only real opposition"?
    Answer; "Dogan, the secular businesses and the media"
    Question; who is Dogan?
    Answer; "whose family holds the presidency of the association (Tusiad - the most powerfull interest group in Turkey, it was the only, i repeat "only" NGO which was not shut down when the army staged a coup in 1980)and owns roughly half the Turkish media" plus oil company, plus property company plus distrubution company plus, plus, plus.
    Question; Can we call "the media", of which half is owned by one bussiness man with a lot of other bussiness interests in the country, is free and independent?
    Answer;?
    Small correction; "The proximate cause for the attacks [was npot] the Dogan group's ongoing coverage of a German court case but Dogan Group's allegation that The prime minister also involed in the case and "personally" recieved money from the crime. The Court has ruled lat week that the allegation was not true.

  • Posted By: tedkolej @ 09/21/2008 12:21:15 AM

    Do not make me laugh! Dogan and his group Turkey's secular opposition? They have been the keenest supporters of corrupt fundamentalist AKP and Erdogan. Starving millions will be the opposition whether they are secular or not, who cares?

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