Something is deeply concerning the public in Turkey.
The latest pastime occupation seems to be going on line at home, once a person is home from work, and going on You Tube. The latest scandal may be about those accused of corruption, or money hidden away in rich people's houses, or unauthorized telephone taps.
Mustafa Aykol, a respected journalist, thinks that "something is rotten in Turkey". These days, the most exciting leisure activity for millions of Turks is to get on the Internet every night and wait for the next scandalous “tape” to go online. Because almost every night, a new alleged wiretapped phone conversation between the most powerful men in Turkey, such as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, is exposed. Every audio file goes viral instantly and leads to heated discussions and angry protests on social media. Some even go out on the streets to voice their dismay – before getting water cannoned or gassed by the police.
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At the same time, the Prime Minister's speeches are being critized as "hate speeches", "Slanders", and "insults" "Erdoğan raises new arguments against the movement in political rallies and speaks exclusively with newspapers and in group meetings of his party, and refers to a movement he had formerly praised as a parallel state, assassins, an illegal organization and a virus. He does not deny recorded phone conversations implicating corruption, bribery, tender-rigging and media interference, and stresses that they have adopted new bills effecting changes to the judiciary, bureaucracy, intelligence agency and Internet to combat the so-called parallel structure."
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The latest pastime occupation seems to be going on line at home, once a person is home from work, and going on You Tube. The latest scandal may be about those accused of corruption, or money hidden away in rich people's houses, or unauthorized telephone taps.
Mustafa Aykol, a respected journalist, thinks that "something is rotten in Turkey". These days, the most exciting leisure activity for millions of Turks is to get on the Internet every night and wait for the next scandalous “tape” to go online. Because almost every night, a new alleged wiretapped phone conversation between the most powerful men in Turkey, such as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan, is exposed. Every audio file goes viral instantly and leads to heated discussions and angry protests on social media. Some even go out on the streets to voice their dismay – before getting water cannoned or gassed by the police.
Read more
At the same time, the Prime Minister's speeches are being critized as "hate speeches", "Slanders", and "insults" "Erdoğan raises new arguments against the movement in political rallies and speaks exclusively with newspapers and in group meetings of his party, and refers to a movement he had formerly praised as a parallel state, assassins, an illegal organization and a virus. He does not deny recorded phone conversations implicating corruption, bribery, tender-rigging and media interference, and stresses that they have adopted new bills effecting changes to the judiciary, bureaucracy, intelligence agency and Internet to combat the so-called parallel structure."
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