Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Is Ergenekon Erdogan’s revenge? - Alarabiya.net English | Front Page

Is Ergenekon Erdogan’s revenge?
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
Ceylan Ozbudak

It is almost embarrassing that some analysts are still saying of the Turkey protests that “peaceful protestors got a harsh response from the Islamist government of Turkey.” They seem to have forgotten that the first rule of being a journalist is to refrain from taking sides. The maxim of Daniel Patrick Moynihan – “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts” – should apply to everyone, regardless of political orientation. So let's talk facts about the Gezi Park display. In the summer of our discontent, we in Turkey have witnessed the destruction of:

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