Over the years, all-out harassment and jailing of independent journalists on a massive scale, increased control over the state media, the purchase of Turkiye’s biggest privately-owned media group by a pro-government billionaire and a system of subsidies for media outlets that support the president have given him control over 85% of the national media.
This has had a many consequences, including a grossly unfair allocation of airtime as well as overall editorial control, During the month from 1 April to 1 May, Erdoğan had exactly 60 times more coverage on the public TV channel TRT Haber (TRT News) than his main challenger. Erdoğan received 32 hours of airtime while Kiliçdaroglu received 32 minutes, according to sources within the High Council for Broadcasting (RTÜK). In other words, a public TV channel not only acted as a state TV channel but also sided with one candidate against another.
On 12 May, two days before the parliamentary and first-round presidential elections, Erdoğan exploited his subservient broadcast media to the hilt. For nearly an hour and a half, during a joint broadcast by 14 TV channels (including A Haber, 24 TV, TV100 and Akit TV), he subjected Kiliçdaroglu to a long series of verbal attacks without a possibility of response being accorded to his rival.
Providing Erdoğan with this media platform was all the more shocking and contrary to journalistic ethics because at no time was he seriously questioned about political corruption, the economic crisis, the government’s controversial handling of the recent earthquake or any of the other issues that currently preoccupy Turkiye’s citizens.
When Trump cries about not winning the election, everyone laughs at him. Not in this case. What’s different?
And with the help of elon musk
That’s a bold claim…care to back It up with multiple sources?
Are not all elections rigged.
He didn’t rig them, he just fortified them.
Honestly, I don’t give a damn.
Media bias was a known element. The opposition should have prepared for it – they didn’t.
Their fault.
Read in the news that they refer to the opposition as ‘the other party’. So it’s Erdogan and the other party..
🙄
He’s just popular in Turkey lol. The CHP and their allies should have not antagonised the conservative population of the country for decades prior. Yes, Erdogan is using this rhetoric to scare the conservative population but it’s understandable to a certain extent why they vote for him.
It’s Turkey.
That’s true elsewhere too, like Greece, Belarus, Hungary..
It is true that he controls many TV channels but elections are definitely not rigged. All parties attend the counting process and they guard the ballots themselves. Also there are many opposition channels as well. One of them if Fox, which is one of the most popular channels in Türkiye. This is just a propaganda piece.
Okay, this is besides the point but can we not use terms like Kyiv and Turkiye in English? It’s the name in their language, true, but we have names for those cities/countries in English.
I’m not going to use München in English, same as how I’m not going to use București in English when talking about said cities. This seems like some weird cultural appropriation bullshit that started recently and it ticks me off ngl
Duh
And so, what’s being done? If anything actual possible?
Bad clickbait title. _Rig_ implies manipulating votes themselves.
To argue that if the opposition/KK had much less airtime and media exposure that this would have had _ensured_ Erdogan’s victory ignores that people still had the possibility to debate freely with each other, to give their vote freely and it reduces humans, in this case voters, down to an automatism.
There was no rigging, just an unfair playing field. Something all illiberal democracies have in common.
But when media was bashing trump 24/7 that was ok? Lmao.
*surprised Pikachu face*
Frankly, it seems like the only way the guy will leave office is either when he is six feet under or by bullet, because in the end the elections are apparently a farce and he either “totally doesn’t tip the scales” or spouts enough nonsense to enough people who believe him. Why they do, I can’t say.
The man is an authoritarian who will do anything to keep power. Him and his bunch. It’s unfortunate.
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Over the years, all-out harassment and jailing of independent journalists on a massive scale, increased control over the state media, the purchase of Turkiye’s biggest privately-owned media group by a pro-government billionaire and a system of subsidies for media outlets that support the president have given him control over 85% of the national media.
This has had a many consequences, including a grossly unfair allocation of airtime as well as overall editorial control, During the month from 1 April to 1 May, Erdoğan had exactly 60 times more coverage on the public TV channel TRT Haber (TRT News) than his main challenger. Erdoğan received 32 hours of airtime while Kiliçdaroglu received 32 minutes, according to sources within the High Council for Broadcasting (RTÜK). In other words, a public TV channel not only acted as a state TV channel but also sided with one candidate against another.
On 12 May, two days before the parliamentary and first-round presidential elections, Erdoğan exploited his subservient broadcast media to the hilt. For nearly an hour and a half, during a joint broadcast by 14 TV channels (including A Haber, 24 TV, TV100 and Akit TV), he subjected Kiliçdaroglu to a long series of verbal attacks without a possibility of response being accorded to his rival.
Providing Erdoğan with this media platform was all the more shocking and contrary to journalistic ethics because at no time was he seriously questioned about political corruption, the economic crisis, the government’s controversial handling of the recent earthquake or any of the other issues that currently preoccupy Turkiye’s citizens.
When Trump cries about not winning the election, everyone laughs at him. Not in this case. What’s different?
And with the help of elon musk
That’s a bold claim…care to back It up with multiple sources?
Are not all elections rigged.
He didn’t rig them, he just fortified them.
Honestly, I don’t give a damn.
Media bias was a known element. The opposition should have prepared for it – they didn’t.
Their fault.
Read in the news that they refer to the opposition as ‘the other party’. So it’s Erdogan and the other party..
🙄
He’s just popular in Turkey lol. The CHP and their allies should have not antagonised the conservative population of the country for decades prior. Yes, Erdogan is using this rhetoric to scare the conservative population but it’s understandable to a certain extent why they vote for him.
It’s Turkey.
That’s true elsewhere too, like Greece, Belarus, Hungary..
It is true that he controls many TV channels but elections are definitely not rigged. All parties attend the counting process and they guard the ballots themselves. Also there are many opposition channels as well. One of them if Fox, which is one of the most popular channels in Türkiye. This is just a propaganda piece.
Okay, this is besides the point but can we not use terms like Kyiv and Turkiye in English? It’s the name in their language, true, but we have names for those cities/countries in English.
I’m not going to use München in English, same as how I’m not going to use București in English when talking about said cities. This seems like some weird cultural appropriation bullshit that started recently and it ticks me off ngl
Duh
And so, what’s being done? If anything actual possible?
Bad clickbait title. _Rig_ implies manipulating votes themselves.
To argue that if the opposition/KK had much less airtime and media exposure that this would have had _ensured_ Erdogan’s victory ignores that people still had the possibility to debate freely with each other, to give their vote freely and it reduces humans, in this case voters, down to an automatism.
There was no rigging, just an unfair playing field. Something all illiberal democracies have in common.
But when media was bashing trump 24/7 that was ok? Lmao.
*surprised Pikachu face*
Frankly, it seems like the only way the guy will leave office is either when he is six feet under or by bullet, because in the end the elections are apparently a farce and he either “totally doesn’t tip the scales” or spouts enough nonsense to enough people who believe him. Why they do, I can’t say.
The man is an authoritarian who will do anything to keep power. Him and his bunch. It’s unfortunate.
A shit, here we go again