{"id":18515,"date":"2016-03-06T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18515"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:27:43","slug":"democracy-ends-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18515","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Ends in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democracy Ends in Turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n
On Saturday March 5th, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News) headlined\u00a0\u201cTurkish Police Storm Newspaper Office Zaman\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that, \u201cTurkish police entered the editorial offices of critical newspaper\u00a0Zaman<\/i>\u00a0on Friday night.\u201d Accompanying videos there showed a police-state in which \u2018security\u2019 forces stormed through a crowd of protesters (readers of the newspaper) outside, into Turkey\u2019s leading opposition newspaper, which is also Turkey\u2019s leading English-language newspaper,\u00a0Zaman<\/i>, and arrested staffers there, taking them away, to who-knows-what fates.<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s nothing like\u00a0Zaman<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 in just about any country: for examples, the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>, London\u00a0Times<\/i>, and\u00a0Guardian<\/i>, aren\u2019t \u201copposition newspapers,\u201d though they used to cover the opposition in a moderately fair way, prior to the George W.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Bush Administration, 9\/11, and \u201cregime change in Iraq.\u201d By contrast,\u00a0Zaman<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>has constantly been very bold in exposing truths that the regime doesn\u2019t want the public to know. But that\u2019s all past history now \u2014 it\u2019s at least as radical a change for Turkey as occurred in America with the Bush regime, which controlled the media as effectively as its successor-regime, Obama\u2019s, has done, and which never needed to employ such blatantly police-state methods as Turkey now is clearly doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday March 4th, Tayyip\u00a0Erdo\u011fan, the Islamist President of U.S. ally and NATO member-nation Turkey, took over\u00a0Zaman<\/i>\u00a0 or\u00a0Today\u2019s Zaman<\/i>, where the headline on Friday was:\u00a0\u201cCourt appoints trustees to take over management of Zaman, Today\u2019s Zaman.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Until after that report was filed, this was only a court matter, not a blatantly police-state one \u2014 using physical forms of force, including armed \u2018security\u2019 forces inside, and water-cannons against demonstrators outside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here was that\u00a0Zaman<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>news-report\u2019s opening:<\/span><\/p>\n

An \u0130stanbul court has appointed trustees to take over the management of the Feza Media Group, which includes Turkey\u2019s biggest-selling newspaper, the\u00a0<\/i>Zaman\u00a0daily<\/i><\/span><\/a>, as well as the Today\u2019s Zaman daily and the Cihan news agency, dealing a fresh blow to the already\u00a0battered\u00a0<\/i>media freedom<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Turkey.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Democracy Ends in Turkey On Saturday March 5th, Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten (German Economic News) headlined\u00a0\u201cTurkish Police Storm Newspaper Office Zaman\u201d\u00a0and reported that, \u201cTurkish police entered the editorial offices of critical newspaper\u00a0Zaman\u00a0on Friday night.\u201d Accompanying videos there showed a police-state in which \u2018security\u2019 forces stormed through a crowd of protesters (readers of the newspaper) outside, into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4873,4394,512,553,584,938,784,12761,818,10369],"class_list":["post-18515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bush","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-media","tag-nato","tag-obama","tag-press-freedom","tag-tayyip-erdogan","tag-todays-zaman","tag-turkey","tag-zaman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}