"Turkish Media: Government Tools September 19th, 2007 by The Stiletto Given how Turkish newspapers “report” the news, “independent journalist” Alexis Debat would have no trouble landing a top spot at any one of them. For instance, during Pope Benedict’s visit to Turkey last November, local papers quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as claiming that the pontiff told him, “You know we don’t have a political role, but we wish for Turkey’s entry into the EU” – which prompted a swift “clarification” by the Vatican that essentially boiled down to “as if.”"
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