Faced with large and growing protests across several major cities, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily blamed his political opponents for the uprising, insisting that what amounted to a “few looters” were being overhyped by the political opposition.
“This is about my ruling party, myself and the looming municipality elections in Istanbul and efforts to make the AK Party lose votes here,” Erdogan insisted, adding that the use of Twitter to instigate protests was proof that the social media outlet is a “danger to society.”
“There is now a menace which is called Twitter,” Ergodan insisted, adding that it was spreading “lies” about his government. With Turkish media offering little in the way of coverage to the protests, many have been turning to Twitter to get updates from the people actually at the sites.
The “problem” surrounding Twitter stems from Turkey’s draconian media policies, as the more effort is put into keeping the mainstream press palatable to the ruling party the less value it is to average people wanting to know what is actually going on, and the more they will inevitably turn to outlets like Twitter.
“This is about my ruling party, myself and the looming municipality elections in Istanbul and efforts to make the AK Party lose votes here,” Erdogan insisted, adding that the use of Twitter to instigate protests was proof that the social media outlet is a “danger to society.”
What this man is saying pointing at two Social and political matters that are related to his relation to creating a Neo Islamization in Turkey, 1- wanting to takeaway the freedom of Turkish people and limiting the freedom of speech when he talks about "twitter that instigating protests".., freedom of information and speech, the investigatory reporter.., the source of a wrong doing by A government…, are the most dangerous base in "democracy"…, that is why many governments..,as such.., trying to stop such social tools and limiting reporters to investigate. 2- His blaming the Turkish uprising on the up coming "municipal" election which have nothing to do with what Turkish government proposing, wanting to limit the people's freedom by implementing the rules of a religious totalitarian into law.., the Erdogan domestic and foreign policies.., being the order taker from NATO and USA are the the other reasons for Turkish people demanding change..,
A threat to the ruling class and dictatorial rule.
To the ruling class there's nothing worse than critical thinking people…
except for a way for them to share opinion worldwide outside control of the
fiefdoms.
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Twitter *is* the voice of the Turkey that Mr Erdogan has been happy to silence.
Erdogan had a chance to be a decent man, and for awhile he was heading in that direction. He stood up to the Zionists over the food flotilla, for example. But the FedGov yanked short his leash, and he became compliant, doing the tap dance for the subversion of Syria. Not that this would help him. Quite the contrary, his defiance of the Zionists has not been forgotten, and now he finds himself in the midst of something that looks a darned sight like a color revolution, complete with Twitter, the State Department's favorite tool of fomenting rebellion abroad. Mr. Erdogan, if you ally with the Devil, you sell your soul, and there is no reneging. The sale is being consummated now.