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While I'm glad that people from Turkey are voicing there opinions here, I think there is also danger in being too credulous. The people who use English speaking

While I'm glad that people from Turkey are voicing there opinions here, I think there is also danger in being too credulous. The people who use English speaking social media are not necessarily representative of the whole population and the fact that people are able to spread their message on social media doesn't make them right. I am still waiting to see confirmation of the existence of a media blackout in Turkey by the mainstream media, and the more general claims about the current regime are even harder to judge for an outsider.

fatihdonmez 13y ago
Yeah you're absolutely right. While I'm in protest, my father in another city talkin about provocateurs about us without knowing I'm part of it (btw not a provocateur). So there is two side of coin. About media blackout, there's no official claims but all media company are heavily in business with government so they can do it without any official requests. Which they did it because media during protests only broadcast cartoon movies and other stupid stuff. Here is the biggest mobile network of Turkey Turkcell -> http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-981808 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-981808 And here is the social media outage during the hottest time of protests -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/as-anti-government-protests-erupt-in-istanbul-facebook-and-twitter-appear-suddenly-throttled/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/as-anti-government-protests...
muhuk 13y ago
Perhaps you can watch these videos of police brutality while you are waiting for the official statement from The Ministry of Censorship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQjPHtAZ6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQjPHtAZ6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsPC4TPAMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsPC4TPAMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThjR-7F0io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThjR-7F0io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHOo2rOmWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHOo2rOmWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y409ZrNLFqM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y409ZrNLFqM Of course, just because the cops are assaulting unarmed civilians doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong. (edit: added one more video)

fatihdonmez 13y ago

Yeah you're absolutely right. While I'm in protest, my father in another city talkin about provocateurs about us without knowing I'm part of it (btw not a provocateur). So there is two side of coin. About media blackout, there's no official claims but all media company are heavily in business with government so they can do it without any official requests. Which they did it because media during protests only broadcast cartoon movies and other stupid stuff. Here is the biggest mobile network of Turkey Turkcell -> http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-981808 http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-981808 And here is the social media outage during the hottest time of protests -> http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/as-anti-government-protests-erupt-in-istanbul-facebook-and-twitter-appear-suddenly-throttled/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/as-anti-government-protests...

muhuk 13y ago

Perhaps you can watch these videos of police brutality while you are waiting for the official statement from The Ministry of Censorship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQjPHtAZ6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQjPHtAZ6c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsPC4TPAMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsPC4TPAMc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThjR-7F0io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThjR-7F0io http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHOo2rOmWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHOo2rOmWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y409ZrNLFqM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y409ZrNLFqM Of course, just because the cops are assaulting unarmed civilians doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong. (edit: added one more video)