The West's civility works for Turkey alone
It is no surprise that the West, which is known to always back the media outlets behind the military coups in Turkey, is supporting the daily Hürriyet's latest scandalous article calling for the junta memorandum
Hürriyet, one of the largest newspapers in Turkey, put out a scandalous headline a couple of days ago.
It put the headline "Military headquarters disturbed" on a news report concerning the dissatisfaction of a group within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) with the elected government.
Certainly, this is a blatant junta memorandum. And, the media in an institutionalized democracy cannot convey threats from the military to the elected representatives of the public. At least, it can never do this in such affirmative rhetoric as Hürriyet did.
Moreover, the country we are talking about is Turkey, which lost 248 of its people in a military coup attempt just a few months ago.
Unfortunately, this kind of scandalous headline is a not a first in the history of Turkish media and the Doğan Media Group, which incorporates the Hürriyet newspaper.
The TSK memoranda for elected governments on Feb. 28, 1997, and April 27, 2007, were supported by Hürriyet and some other newspapers.
Naturally, the Turkish public is extremely disturbed by this situation.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and government and military authorities voiced their reaction to the provocative headline of the newspaper.
However, the EU and some international media outlets that closely monitor every development in Turkey hardly care about legitimate political power, namely the public, being threatened.
Even if there is no evidence, they respond by reporting all kinds of claims and anxieties, so much so that they sometimes associate the issue with the future of Turkey's negotiations with the EU.However, when it comes to an eastern country, we have never seen them siding with the elected will in military-civil relations, the rules of which were set centuries ago in a democratic mechanism.
Finally, remember the military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Did you hear a strong reaction from the U.S., the EU or nongovernmental organizations against the coup makers?
On the contrary, they kept on airing grievances over and over again about the civilian will's measures against coup makers although they are cited in international law as well.
The Turkish public is fed up with this double standard.
Let us see whether the EU will react, albeit naively, to military juntas and obsequious newspapers. The EU cannot tolerate military juntas intervening in politics in the West, but considers them to be the guarantor of secularization in eastern countries.
Against all odds, we are curiously following without losing hope.
It put the headline "Military headquarters disturbed" on a news report concerning the dissatisfaction of a group within the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) with the elected government.
Certainly, this is a blatant junta memorandum. And, the media in an institutionalized democracy cannot convey threats from the military to the elected representatives of the public. At least, it can never do this in such affirmative rhetoric as Hürriyet did.
Moreover, the country we are talking about is Turkey, which lost 248 of its people in a military coup attempt just a few months ago.
Unfortunately, this kind of scandalous headline is a not a first in the history of Turkish media and the Doğan Media Group, which incorporates the Hürriyet newspaper.
The TSK memoranda for elected governments on Feb. 28, 1997, and April 27, 2007, were supported by Hürriyet and some other newspapers.
Naturally, the Turkish public is extremely disturbed by this situation.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and government and military authorities voiced their reaction to the provocative headline of the newspaper.
However, the EU and some international media outlets that closely monitor every development in Turkey hardly care about legitimate political power, namely the public, being threatened.
Even if there is no evidence, they respond by reporting all kinds of claims and anxieties, so much so that they sometimes associate the issue with the future of Turkey's negotiations with the EU.However, when it comes to an eastern country, we have never seen them siding with the elected will in military-civil relations, the rules of which were set centuries ago in a democratic mechanism.
Finally, remember the military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. Did you hear a strong reaction from the U.S., the EU or nongovernmental organizations against the coup makers?
On the contrary, they kept on airing grievances over and over again about the civilian will's measures against coup makers although they are cited in international law as well.
The Turkish public is fed up with this double standard.
Let us see whether the EU will react, albeit naively, to military juntas and obsequious newspapers. The EU cannot tolerate military juntas intervening in politics in the West, but considers them to be the guarantor of secularization in eastern countries.
Against all odds, we are curiously following without losing hope.