There's always a lot of interesting things happening in the political arena here in Turkey. It's so hard to determine fact from fiction because all the media outlets are controlled by the government - there is no press freedom. So, I try to read from a lot of different sources and make up my own mind. Sometimes the sources are so contradictory it's difficult to determine where the story starts...here are just a few of the articles I've read recently...see what you think...
Who is Turkey's Prime Minister?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2270642.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/24/recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey
Did you know that some 700+ people have been on a hunger strike for over 60 days? If this happened in Canada, would we react the same way?
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/06/kurdish_hunger_strike_pushes_turkey_toward_the_tipping_point
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/08/erdogan-kurdish-hunger-strikers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/10/31/the-hunger-strikes-in-turkey-using-ones-body-as-a-means-of-communication/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2012/11/2012111255711767550.html
Turkey is free democratic country. If you think otherwise...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/oct/23/press-freedom-turkey
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