Turkey’s AKP Mobilizes Twitter Army for Elections
By: Barın Kayaoğlu for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on September 18.
If last summer’s Gezi Park protests in Turkey proved anything, it was the power of social media, especially Twitter. While mainstream media outlets generally kept quiet after the mass protests broke out on May 31, Twitter users reported live from the demonstrations with texts, pictures and videos. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose harsh rhetoric added fuel to the Gezi fire, called Twitter “a scourge.”
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