“Does the media serve for the state?”
“Does the media serve for the state?”
Journalists are taken into custody with a huge wave.
Silence.
No voice is raised.
Not a single leaf moves.
Headlines don’t raise hell with detentions.
However, this is a big operation.
Around 50 detainees of KCK operations are reported to be journalists.
However, the detention of journalists almost disappears on papers.
The news is moved from first pages to back pages…You need to make a detailed search to learn what has happened…
This is a kind of weird negligence.
Disturbing.
Why?...
Does the media serve for the state?
This question obsesses me.
Or, is this silence a result of the meeting that PM Erdoðan held in Ankara with media patrons and managers?...
I don’t know, maybe…
But I want to underline that it bodes no good.
Should we happen to lend an ear to the allegations of the state, these are not journalists.
But what are they?
Terrorist!
PKK’s pawn!
Furthermore, some of them have received training in Kandil.
How do you know that?
How can you be so sure?
How can a journalist be dismissed from profession as a result of a detention?
On which right is this implementation grounded?
I spent many years on this subject.
We were discussing the same matters when I was a member of Turkey’s International Press Institute Committee.
The discussions were similarly held about the “identities” of people arrested in connection with the freedom of expression and pres.
They are communist, not journalists!
They are followers of sharia, not journalists! (Turkish Penal Code, Article 163)
They are terrorist, not journalists!
Detained journalists are neither suspected nor accused.
They haven’t been sentenced yet.
However, it seems that a final judgment has already been placed on them;
They are members of the KCK and PKK…
There is no voice.
Not a single leaf moves.
News about them appear in odd corners.
The same question again;
Does the media serve for the state?
Birgün paper made a headline;
“Arrest us too and save the country!”
In a speech I made yesterday at International Strategic Research Organization, I talked about the Kurdish problem, PKK and Turkey’s role in this respect.
I tried to say in short that;
The political power has launched a total war against the PKK today. Isolating Ýmralý on one side, this power is at the same time attacking on PKK at mountains and the city.
The situation is not different from that in 1990’s…
While giving weapons prominence to bring down the PKK and to break its monopoly, the state is more and more restricting the areas of democracy and freedom…
This policy could kick back.
In my opinion, to break PKK’s monopoly and to disenable the ‘tutorship at mountain’ could only be possible by expanding the area of democracy and freedom.
However, not a single step has been taken so far in this respect. On the other hand, Deputy PM Bülent Arýnç, during his speech on behalf of the state at budget closure meeting, said that;
“Kurds will be granted all their rights!”
This means that they haven’t been granted any rights so far…
This means that PM’s promises for democracy against terror has hung in the air for many years now…
I said these in my speech.
And then I listened.
I listened or at least understood that this new process, which is to show how heavy handed the state is, will be followed by other new processes.
And finally I warned that;
Turkey will find itself in quite nasty seas in regard to its regional role if it wallows into a ‘violence spiral’.
* Source: Milliyet paper
Silence.
No voice is raised.
Not a single leaf moves.
Headlines don’t raise hell with detentions.
However, this is a big operation.
Around 50 detainees of KCK operations are reported to be journalists.
However, the detention of journalists almost disappears on papers.
The news is moved from first pages to back pages…You need to make a detailed search to learn what has happened…
This is a kind of weird negligence.
Disturbing.
Why?...
Does the media serve for the state?
This question obsesses me.
Or, is this silence a result of the meeting that PM Erdoðan held in Ankara with media patrons and managers?...
I don’t know, maybe…
But I want to underline that it bodes no good.
Should we happen to lend an ear to the allegations of the state, these are not journalists.
But what are they?
Terrorist!
PKK’s pawn!
Furthermore, some of them have received training in Kandil.
How do you know that?
How can you be so sure?
How can a journalist be dismissed from profession as a result of a detention?
On which right is this implementation grounded?
I spent many years on this subject.
We were discussing the same matters when I was a member of Turkey’s International Press Institute Committee.
The discussions were similarly held about the “identities” of people arrested in connection with the freedom of expression and pres.
They are communist, not journalists!
They are followers of sharia, not journalists! (Turkish Penal Code, Article 163)
They are terrorist, not journalists!
Detained journalists are neither suspected nor accused.
They haven’t been sentenced yet.
However, it seems that a final judgment has already been placed on them;
They are members of the KCK and PKK…
There is no voice.
Not a single leaf moves.
News about them appear in odd corners.
The same question again;
Does the media serve for the state?
Birgün paper made a headline;
“Arrest us too and save the country!”
In a speech I made yesterday at International Strategic Research Organization, I talked about the Kurdish problem, PKK and Turkey’s role in this respect.
I tried to say in short that;
The political power has launched a total war against the PKK today. Isolating Ýmralý on one side, this power is at the same time attacking on PKK at mountains and the city.
The situation is not different from that in 1990’s…
While giving weapons prominence to bring down the PKK and to break its monopoly, the state is more and more restricting the areas of democracy and freedom…
This policy could kick back.
In my opinion, to break PKK’s monopoly and to disenable the ‘tutorship at mountain’ could only be possible by expanding the area of democracy and freedom.
However, not a single step has been taken so far in this respect. On the other hand, Deputy PM Bülent Arýnç, during his speech on behalf of the state at budget closure meeting, said that;
“Kurds will be granted all their rights!”
This means that they haven’t been granted any rights so far…
This means that PM’s promises for democracy against terror has hung in the air for many years now…
I said these in my speech.
And then I listened.
I listened or at least understood that this new process, which is to show how heavy handed the state is, will be followed by other new processes.
And finally I warned that;
Turkey will find itself in quite nasty seas in regard to its regional role if it wallows into a ‘violence spiral’.
* Source: Milliyet paper
