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TURKISH PM DIRECTLY INTERVENED IN TV NEWS BROADCAST
20:45 â~@¢ 05.02.14
An opposition lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Recep Erdogan of
directly intervening in a TV broadcast, speaking during a parliamentary
session late on Feb. 4, the Hurriyet Daily Newsreports.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Parliamentary Group Head
Yusuf Halacoglu also used his tablet computer to play a recording
of the alleged phone conversation between Erdogan and an executive
of private broadcaster Haberturk, which had leaked onto the Internet
earlier on the same day.
In the recording, Erdogan is heard demanding that the TV executive
remove a news ticker referring to a statement by MHP head Devlet
Bahceli at the height of the Gezi Park demonstrations last June.
The "breaking" ticker in question had referred to Bahceli's calls
to President Abdullah Gul to "do something about the Gezi protests,"
at a time when Erdogan was on an official visit to Morocco.
"This shows the extent of the scheme and how the entire press has
been taken under control. Those who can't even tolerate statements
being relayed in news tickers are talking about advanced democracy,"
Halacoglu said after playing the recorded conversation to Parliament.
"Such a scandal is unprecedented," he added.
Halacoglu's intervention raised the tension in the General Assembly,
with Development Minister Cevdet Yılmaz slamming the leak and
questioning its authenticity.
"How can some circles inside or outside Turkey invade the privacy and
intimacy of people and procure this [phone record]? And we don't know
if it's authentic or not, it could be fake," Yılmaz said.
The Haberturk executive is also heard in other leaked phone
conversations, apparently conducted after his conversation with
Erdogan, asking employees to immediately remove the news ticker and
questioning why it was put up in the first place.
Haberturk, a mainstream news broadcaster, was the first TV station to
which Erdogan gave an interview after the Gezi Park protests erupted.
The Turkish media landscape was slammed throughout the protests for
not adequately broadcasting the police crackdown on the streets of
Istanbul and other cities.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
20:45 â~@¢ 05.02.14
An opposition lawmaker has accused Prime Minister Recep Erdogan of
directly intervening in a TV broadcast, speaking during a parliamentary
session late on Feb. 4, the Hurriyet Daily Newsreports.
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Parliamentary Group Head
Yusuf Halacoglu also used his tablet computer to play a recording
of the alleged phone conversation between Erdogan and an executive
of private broadcaster Haberturk, which had leaked onto the Internet
earlier on the same day.
In the recording, Erdogan is heard demanding that the TV executive
remove a news ticker referring to a statement by MHP head Devlet
Bahceli at the height of the Gezi Park demonstrations last June.
The "breaking" ticker in question had referred to Bahceli's calls
to President Abdullah Gul to "do something about the Gezi protests,"
at a time when Erdogan was on an official visit to Morocco.
"This shows the extent of the scheme and how the entire press has
been taken under control. Those who can't even tolerate statements
being relayed in news tickers are talking about advanced democracy,"
Halacoglu said after playing the recorded conversation to Parliament.
"Such a scandal is unprecedented," he added.
Halacoglu's intervention raised the tension in the General Assembly,
with Development Minister Cevdet Yılmaz slamming the leak and
questioning its authenticity.
"How can some circles inside or outside Turkey invade the privacy and
intimacy of people and procure this [phone record]? And we don't know
if it's authentic or not, it could be fake," Yılmaz said.
The Haberturk executive is also heard in other leaked phone
conversations, apparently conducted after his conversation with
Erdogan, asking employees to immediately remove the news ticker and
questioning why it was put up in the first place.
Haberturk, a mainstream news broadcaster, was the first TV station to
which Erdogan gave an interview after the Gezi Park protests erupted.
The Turkish media landscape was slammed throughout the protests for
not adequately broadcasting the police crackdown on the streets of
Istanbul and other cities.
Armenian News - Tert.am
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress