Turkish media and the events in Tunisia

Daniel sent me this:  "This is most curious. The Turkish television news hasn't mentioned Tunisia at all that I've seen (if it has it's just not viewed as top news, because the news has been on quite a bit here and I haven't seen it). But what's more curious is the print media, which HAS mentioned it, but the proportions seem to be way off from paper to paper. Radikal (which lacks the scantly clad women on the front page found on the other two mainstream papers to which I'm linking you) has 7 results since the start of the year when you search for Tunisia (), and not all of those are actually articles about Tunisia, ignoring the fact that four of those are just translations from other papers. Meanwhile, Hürriyet (the most popular paper of the three) has 19 mentions () and Milliyet also has more than Radikal () Radikal is regarding as a more left-leaning paper, but all three are owned by Doğan Medya Grubu, thus one wonders if the Turkish media is trying to turn "left-leaning" Turks' attention away from the economy and the possibility of revolution and toward worrying about the "threat" to secularism posed by the AKP (whose neo-liberal leadership is of course just as close to the United States as that of the CHP)?"

PS He later added: "i just saw something on the (government sponsored) TRT news about tunisia. it shows only property destruction and not one police officer or soldier or their weapons, or the victims of their violence. from this we should surmise that the turkish government believes that what happened in tunisia was some kids destroyed a lot of shop windows for no reason, and thats why the police have to be harsh with them."