It was the sugar bowl they called the “Al-Aqsa Mosque Statue.”

The ruling media preferred to read US Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Ankara and his meeting with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan through “subliminal messages” and “body language” rather than the issues discussed and their results.

First, accounts like MiswakCaps on social media discovered that “a star and crescent ornament containing an image of Al-Aqsa Mosque was placed between Fidan and Blinken!” On this discovery Yeni Şafak, news, calendar News sites like jumped right in; They wrote that Fidan gave Blinken the message, “Jerusalem will be under the protection of the Crescent and the Star” with that ornament. Print newspapers evening “The Holy Message” new decade “The welcome that the Zionist deserves.” calendar The message read from the statue was carried to the front page with the title “A Message from Al-Aqsa Mosque to Blinken.”

But in the media note sent to journalists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was confirmed that no special trinket was placed on Fidan’s desk for the meeting with Blinken, and that a bowl of sweets with a crescent and a star and a fountain pen on it. The pen holder was also present during previous meetings. As evidence of this, the two photos taken during Fidan’s meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on November 1 were cited. In fact, the sugar bowl, crescent moon and pen holder were also present in that picture.

thus teyit.org He also reached the same conclusion. The picture that he thought was “an ornament with a model of Al-Aqsa Mosque” in the Fidan-Blinken photo is an illusion caused by the appearance of the star, the crescent, the sugar bowl, and the pen holder as one because of the camera angle!

That’s not all. The same media organizations also described Blinken’s reception at Esenboga Airport, not by Minister Fidan, but by Ankara Deputy Governor Namik Kemal Nazli, as a “message” to the guest minister. But visiting ministers are always welcomed in this way; The Foreign Minister does not go to the airport to meet his counterparts. This is also wrong.

The only right thing is for Fidan to step back and shake his hand, thus wasting Blinken’s attempt to hug and kiss him. According to Handi Firat, Blinken’s talk on the phone in his car and making Fidan wait, who received him at the ministry’s door, was a private response to his “rudeness.”

Blinken also did not feel the “cold winds” and did not understand those messages, as those newspapers wrote! “We just had a nice, long and fruitful conversation with Foreign Minister Fidan in Turkey,” he told reporters on his way back to his country. He didn’t sound like he was “shocked” when he spoke.

In short, the journalists who produce imaginative messages from the Star and Crescent sugar and the deputy governor’s welcome are very creative. Based on zero data, they can lodge a massive protest against Blinken and attribute “heroism” to Hakan Fidan! After what they wrote turns out to be complete nonsense, they don’t feel selfish enough to not publish corrections…

Journalists interested in politics

Barış Yarkadaş was one of many journalists whose predictions about the results of the CHP congress were wrong. What distinguishes Yarkadash from others is TV100The reason is that he made very firm statements such as “If Ozgur Ozil wins, I will leave the profession” in the live broadcast on .

Of course, any journalist can make mistakes. The important thing is self-criticism, revealing the reasons for the mistake, and making sure it does not happen again. Yarkadash admitted his mistake and announced that he had “left active journalism.” But he did not address the reasons for the error and did not criticize himself.

As far as I can see, the root of his mistake is that, as a former CHP deputy, he did not break away from politics. After returning to journalism, he continued to participate behind the scenes of the party. He applied to the CHP to run for parliament in the last general election. Therefore, it is natural for prediction, expectation, desire, analysis and observation to be mixed.

Imambakere Okosh is the owner and writer of a well-known news website. On that occasion, he appeared as a journalist, but he had a close relationship with the CHP. Moreover, it is a name close to Kilicdaroglu. Or can a journalist object to the decision of the head of the Republican People’s Party, who is considering withdrawing before the second round, by shouting, “No, no, I do not allow you to withdraw”?

Üşüş can scream. Because he works as a politician in the conference room, not as a journalist. This means that he has such power. But these excessive behaviors harmed journalism. It has created a negative perception of the neutrality of journalists and their relationship with politicians.

After the CHP congress, the positions of Barış Yarkadaş and Imambekir Okç came to the fore, but it is known that there are other journalists who do not adhere to the communication distance rule. There are also a fair number of journalists in the ranks of the AKP who act like active politicians.

There are dozens of journalists on television who make comments like party members, even going as far as AKP executives. Among these journalists, Hülki Cevizoglu, Mehmet Sahin and Şebnem Borsali became MPs; Hasan Basri Yalçın was appointed Vice Chairman of the Justice and Development Party. Bursalı and Yalçın, with the right attitude morning’Taki, Mohamed Shaheen also Türkiye They finished their articles in the newspaper.

But Aisha Buhrler, who was elected as a member of parliament, new dawnHe still continues his writings. Former MP Mehmet Mittener also new dawnAlthough he continues to write, he speaks, evaluates and writes as a supporter of the Justice and Development Party. He is a director of the AKP’s Istanbul District Organization and was a parliamentary candidate in the recent elections. a star The party identity of Halim Kokja, the website’s writer, is also highlighted.

new decade The head of the Anatolian Writers and Publishers Association Sinan Burhan is also a party writer. While he was a member of the municipal council for the Justice and Development Party, he resigned from this position to become a representative of his party in the general elections, but he was not nominated.

Sinan Burhan often brings together ministers and party executives with Ankara representatives at the assembly headquarters. These meetings that he organizes are an activity of the Justice and Development Party and are not a contribution to journalists and community media. Because Sinan Burhan is a member of the Justice and Development Party more than a journalist.

For journalists to establish close relationships with politicians and act like politicians eliminates their independence; It prevents them from treating data objectively and conveying the clear truth to society. Because party journalists face the risk of party interests taking precedence over the public interest. It is not possible to be a journalist and a party member at the same time; Even if it did, no benefit would come from it.

The crime of annoying Erdogan!

Targeting new dawnHis new habit. This newspaper also targeted the artist Gülşen, who made jokes about graduates of Imam Hatip, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Exhibition in Fashaneh, and 11 doctors who wrote scientific articles about “sexual dysfunction.”

new dawn, Now he has targeted the nine members of the Constitutional Court who decided to release Hatay MP Can Atalay. By publishing pictures of all of them with ridiculous accusations such as “they opened the door to Fatah and the PKK”…

Of course, the issue is not whether the members of the Constitutional Court have any connection to the Gulen organization or the PKK. new dawn He is not interested in facts! It is enough that these members made decisions that “disturbed” President Erdogan. new dawnto. They don’t care how serious the consequences are.

new dawnThis post is from time’in (new decade(former name) targeted three members of the State Council with the headline “Here are those members” in 2006. In the attack that occurred after this headline, the head of the Second Section M. was killed. Yucel Ozbilgin. Preparing for the attack time The executives escaped a fine of 111,000 liras; They continued the same broadcast for years.

There is no doubt that Y, who is under the protection of the government,A broad dawn Its executives will not be prosecuted either. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Vice President Izzat Ulfi Junter, who targeted journalist Alikan Uludag on social media and insulted him in a reckless manner, will also not face any charges.

But, as Reporters Without Borders’ Erol Onderoglu reported, dozens of our colleagues have been subjected to charges that can be used in any situation, such as “targeting people who participated in the war against terrorism.” This is the spirit of the times. Everything is free for palace staff who send their consciences on vacation, as Erdogan once said: “They can either hang them or cut them off.”…

Akit’s black propaganda

Sabah posted a picture on social media with the title, “Mother assaults her daughter’s hijab.” “At a wedding, when the bride’s mother saw her daughter wearing a veil, she went crazy and tried to expose her head in front of the audience,” which suggests that this incident happened in Turkey.

morning‘to Youtube His narration stated that this incident occurred in Kazakhstan. As a matter of fact, examine the photo Information He also confirmed that the photo was taken in Kazakhstan and not Turkey, but he was unable to explain the cause of the incident.

however InformationDays after this work, the same pictures ‘new decade’On its website “Look at Secular Freedom! It was reported to be an “ugly attack from the mother to the veiled bride.” It’s still on the air. Furthermore, they create the perception that the incident took place in Turkey by writing that “it is not known in which country the video was filmed.” This is not journalism, this is deliberate distortion.

In one sentence:

• NTV, Akşam, Hurriyet, Milliyet, Posta, Sabah, Sozcu, Internet News, Haber 7, TV100 Many news sites, in their news investigations against the President of Tuzlaspor, claimed that Murat Ageril Republic’He did not mention what he proposed in his other article; Agerel was not mentioned as a source.
• Republic’In the article titled “Light of the Republic and the National Library” in which the establishment of the National Library was explained, the image of the “Nation’s Library” in the Presidential Palace was used instead of the National Library building in Ankara Bahcelievler.
• TürkiyeIn the “Airline Ticket Discount Game” story, it was reported that the Ad Council fined two companies, but the names of Enuygun and Obilet were hidden.
• morningReporter Metin Can wrote an advertisement for an e-commerce company that was likened to news, which violates the principles of journalism, and published the advertisement page with his signature.
• freedomedited an e-commerce company’s promotional flyer as a news story and ran it full-page, without adding the warning “This is an advertisement.”
• In the conference news, the number of people who entered the CHP Prime Minister by breaking the main list of Ozgur Ozil was written as 9, but with independent candidate Deniz Yavuzilmaz, this number reached 10.
• resolution“Three people lost their lives after being swept away by floodwaters in Aydin,” but “floodwaters” do not happen; Torrent means “flood”.
• SpokesmanThe name of the “Turkish father” was not mentioned at all in the news “The Turkish father held his daughter hostage at Hamburg airport.”
• evening, s. The promotional text of the Urfa Halile municipality was published as news without adding any warning.
• resolution, The headline read, “$140 billion for Picasso’s muse,” but the painting was sold for $139 million, not a billion.
• The ruling media, which reported that there was a crisis between the Ankara Municipality and “public bus” operators in free transportation for people over 65 years of age, did not mention the solution to the crisis.
• resolution, “What lucky people they are,” said documentary filmmaker Burak Dogansuysal. “Even though I encountered it in Asia, I couldn’t get that close to it,” he shared a photo of the lizard appearing to have come out of the toilet at his house, and made news by saying: “Such an animal came out of his toilet.”
• you are in And nationality, Instead of explaining the northern lights seen from Turkey with a scientific approach, “Are they a harbinger of an earthquake?” He published news that raised concerns.

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