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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Erdoğan: Less European, but more Islamist - CONTRIBUTOR

Erdoğan: Less European, but more Islamist

İLKER BİRBİL/KORAY ÇALIŞKAN

Having accused the New York Times of being a “shameless, nefarious and villainous newspaper adept at publishing lies,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan would be surprised to read thousands of bytes of positive coverage in the same newspaper. An analysis of the 1.2 million words, which make up the 1,472 news items and 44 editorials that the New York Times has published about him over the past 10 years shows a substantive change, not in the tone of the coverage, but in the ways in which Mr. Erdoğan himself conducts politics.

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