Tonight, PM Erdoğan accepts he did intervene Turkish media…

In his mindset, the whole country is a family of which is the father and he has the right and correct his children [all nation]’s misdeed. Without any shame, he accepted that not only once and frequently he calls the media bosses and tells them how to report…

Here is the video of his talk after Zaman daily’s correspondent’s questions… [in Turkish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_rQwdMzc9I

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