Saturday, February 19, 2011
Numbers
Interresting: the number of people published by media. In Tunisia, Egypt and Libya (Bahrain is of course a dwarf among the countries) it was said "hundreds of people...", sometimes "thousands..". Ok, at last there were one million. But if in Turkey 5 million protest against the regime, nobody reports it......
Friday, February 18, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The winter of Arab discontent
"The winter of Arab discontent": This title is used by journalist Lahcen Haddad to describe the uprising in most countries of Mahgreb and Middle East
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=the-winter-of-arab-discontent-2011-02-16.
Meanwhile the protests spread out even to İraq's southern town of Basra.
In Bahrain several people have been shot. Interresting there: The powerful Emirs are linked with Saudi-Arabia and the Sunni, the majority of people are Shiites.
Will the same things happen in Saudi-Arabia too? The powerful class there is very old (the king passed the eighties), the age level in the country is 19 years! Jobs are mainly hold by strangers, many people are jobless and without a perspective. Will there be a revolution too? For the moment a well known blogger from Saudi-Arabia says: no!
http://saudijeans.org/
But let's wait and see. Let's wait and see in Turkey too.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=the-winter-of-arab-discontent-2011-02-16.
Meanwhile the protests spread out even to İraq's southern town of Basra.
In Bahrain several people have been shot. Interresting there: The powerful Emirs are linked with Saudi-Arabia and the Sunni, the majority of people are Shiites.
Will the same things happen in Saudi-Arabia too? The powerful class there is very old (the king passed the eighties), the age level in the country is 19 years! Jobs are mainly hold by strangers, many people are jobless and without a perspective. Will there be a revolution too? For the moment a well known blogger from Saudi-Arabia says: no!
http://saudijeans.org/
But let's wait and see. Let's wait and see in Turkey too.
Press Freedom
"In the World Press Freedom Index issued by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, Turkey ranked 138 out of 178 countries. Nearly 50 journalists are imprisoned in the country and more than 500 face judicial prosecution for their news coverage."
from:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-criticizes-us-ambassador-2011-02-17
from:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-criticizes-us-ambassador-2011-02-17
Arab moods
Now we hear about protests in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen (what about Algeria and Jordany?) Is it an all-Arab revolution? To hope: to civil rights and not to religious establishments.....
About Bahrain see:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=riot-police-storm-bahrain-camp-4-reported-dead-2011-02-17
About Bahrain see:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=riot-police-storm-bahrain-camp-4-reported-dead-2011-02-17
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Doubts
"According to conventional wisdom, Turkey has become the template of our times: a large Muslim-majority country that has moved from military domination to civilian rule in a few years, spearheaded by a popular democratically elected government trumpeting its EU membership ambitions...."
read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/13/egypt-doubt-turkish-model-democracy
read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/13/egypt-doubt-turkish-model-democracy
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
OdaTV
OdaTV, a prominent Turkish website, was raided by police yesterday, closed and their prominent people taken into custody. In same time there were news on the site,explaining, how much the "proves" on the Ergenekon-case were faked. Turkish press freedom?
http://en.cumhuriyet.com/?hn=217168
http://en.cumhuriyet.com/?hn=217168
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