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Turkish PM criticizes media for terrorist propaganda

06 May 2011 [11:16] - TODAY.AZ
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized the Turkish media for promoting terrorist activities by reflecting details of terrorist attacks, in his speech on Thursday at an election meeting in the southern province of Osmaniye.

"I have a question for printed and visual media: Are you aware that you are supporting terrorism one way or another in your TV programs? Are you aware that while trying to expose them you are propagating terrorism? Are you aware that you reinforce propaganda about many other things when you say you will find out about their political organizations?" Erdoğan said in his speech Thursday, one day after a policeman lost his life in an attack on the prime minister’s convoy in Kastamonu.

The prime minister’s convoy was attacked late Wednesday in Kastamonu after he departed from the Black Sea city by helicopter, leaving one police officer dead and another injured. The assailants threw explosives at the party bus and then opened fire, escaping after an exchange of gunfire. Security forces have launched an operation in the forested area surrounding the crime scene to catch the perpetrators.

"Do you not see the photos of their parliamentarians standing next to terrorists with masks on their faces and Molotov cocktails in their hands? And you look and see their mayors are distributing Molotov cocktails to youngsters," he said referring to members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP. "They are caught and are in prison now. Is there any need to explain all this? The district party chairmen [are caught] like this, the provincial chairmen [are caught] like this, the parliamentarians [are caught] like this," Erdoğan said, adding that everything was clear, according to a CNN Türk television channel report Thursday evening.

"Then they are asking for their rights and freedoms. I am sorry, but this is not the way to ask for rights and freedoms."


/Hurriyet Daily News/
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