Turkish Spring ?

[ICantSpellDawg]

This is a thread about a strong protest of its own kind where people of every ethnicity, religion, ages and ideals or those with none at all are flocking to Istanbul, and if they can't they gather in their hometowns.

So please drag your personal agendas elsewhere.

I've checked all Turkish TV channels a few minutes before and it's all your "ordinary Sunday" while the protests are getting stronger reinforced with people from other cities whereas police forces are rumoured to have called for an extra 10.000 to "manage" the incidents. Social and international media are the only windows opening to the outside world right now. We've read news of certain police forces from other cities refusing to reinforce their "colleagues" in Istanbul and those that have quit their jobs.

The undercover cops are told to be smashing ATMs and damaging mass transportation vehicles so as to later condemn the protests and justify the rageful conduct of the police.

If you still like Erdogan and AKP, sorry but you and I have distances as I am a Turkish citizen living in this almost-hellhole.

Media brainwashing isn't fun, is it? I'm against that stuff in Turkey, where it is obviously worse, just like I'm against it here.

Media tends to report narrative, not news. If the narrative of liberal development is threatened, media decides how to ignore news to stay on message. Narrative is the enemy of news. Broadcast news is government/power propaganda and entertainment everywhere you go. Every moment that you spend watching it you are demolishing your understanding of the world.