Apparently 95% of the media being owned by the government is not enough for the president of Turkey.
Sultan Erdogan’s fascist government is now trying to seize one of the remaining opposition media voices, Can Erzincan TV, that some say will leave no media voices for opposition to work with.
From the Turkish Minute:
Criticism grows over an attempt by government – which controls 95 percent of the media organs — to shut down Can Erzincan TV, a station known for its critical stance against the government.
A pro-government daily reported on Sunday that İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Hasan Yılmaz has sent a notice to Turkish Satellite Communications Company (Türksat) recommending the suspension of Can Erzincan TV’s broadcasting on the grounds that its programs serve the purposes of Gülen movement.
The move came after 15 TV channels, 5 radio stations, 3 newspapers and a magazine critical of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government were shut down in the last nine months.
Sultan Erdogan has recently declared Fethullah Gulen, a rival Islamist whose movement exposed massive corruption by Erdogan in 2013, a terrorist and is using that as an excuse to take over opposition media companies like they did Zaman back in March.
Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC) President Turgay Olcayto said that the government accuses Gülen movement of forming a “parallel state” but has no evidence to support the claim.
“If it [Can Erzincan TV] is shut down, no media organ will be left for the critical press members to work soon. … This way, they [government figures] destroy people’s freedom of information. How will the members of the society act without learning about the truth? When they shut down TV channels like this one, all that is left is bunch of superstitions,” Olcayto also stated.
Sultan Erdogan has gotten rid of most, if not all of the major opposition voices in the media so people only hear what he wants them to hear.
It looks like Erdogan is now attacking this last media company so it won’t be a hindrance when he rewrites the constitution later this year to make his de facto Sultanship official.
And I haven’t even mentioned how Sultan Erdogan is using the Gulen excuse to take over the judiciary in Turkey. He’s completely out of control.
To quote one of Erdogan’s AKP henchmen from a year ago:
“The caliph is coming, get ready.”