Shared blame for state of Turkish media
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a straight-talking man. “I did call the Haberturk executive from Morocco in June,” he acknowledged on Feb. 11, “simply to remind them” that the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli’s criticism of the government ignored all the good things that he, Erdogan, has done. “Those to whom I made the complaint regarding the insults that appeared on the news ticker made the necessary correction. We do the same with other media bosses if there are any insults to our government. Either my colleagues or I give them a call to bring such insults to their attention. I told them that we’re now in Morocco. If it’s wrong to say such a thing, I don’t know about it. But we need to teach these things. Because those insults were nothing but ordinary.”
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