Accuracy in Media

This is a major blow to democracy and the freedom of speech and the press: CNN Turk reported that 130 media organizations had been shuttered in a widening crackdown by Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. The list also inlcuded 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines. Many of those targeted were regional media outlets as […]

Erdogan’s government seized 2,250 facilities and and institutions that it claimed are essential to national security. The government had already jailed at least 10,000 people and forcibly retired 60,000 workers as a result of the coup attempt. Photo by World Humanitarian Summit 2016

Don and Brian talk about the police shootings in Baton Rouge and the War on Cops, Nice and Germany terrorist attacks, Attempted coup in Turkey, Melania Trump’s RNC speech, Marilyn Mosby’s failure in Freddie Gray case, Chris Matthews attacks Benghazi victim’s mother, Tim Duncan’s retirement, Starbucks and Black Lives Matter. You can find it on Soundcloud […]

From The Telegraph: With expectations growing of heavy measures against dissent, European politicians warned Mr Erdogan that the coup attempt did not give him a “blank cheque” to disregard the rule of law. Mr Erdogan has hinted he may reintroduce the death penalty, which the country abolished in 2004 in line with its bid to […]

What is this, Turkey? Turkish security for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was not afraid of putting their hands on journalists and protesters outside the left-leaning Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.

Tayyip Erdogan met with a delegation of Jewish leaders from the U.S., which could signal that relations are warming between Israel and Turkey. Both have a common enemy in Syria (Islamist terrorism), so it would make sense. Photo by AgenciaAndes

The suicide bomber attacked an area popular with tourists in the city of Istanbul, but the state media has blacked out coverage over the attack.

Some accused Tayyip Erdogan of citing Nazi Germany as a good model of unitary government, but his office claimed that he said it was a negative example in his remarks. Photo by The Prime Minister’s Office

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia and their president, Vladimir Putin, of trying to “play with fire” in aggressive rhetoric over Turkey shooting down a Russian jet in Turkish airspace. World War III, anyone?

Well, there you have it: “A group of regional experts criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a June 9 panel discussion at the Center for American Progress (CAP).”