Turkish Media might be free for Erdoğan as He was Heard, Read and Watched 2.5M Times in 2014. Dispatches from Turkey…

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In 2014, the television, press and online media coverage of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan turned out in 2,052,748 different media pieces. Whereas opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu remained at 482,669 and PM Davutoğlu at 268,604.
‘We do philosophy in Turkish, we even have publications, but it is obvious that he does not know this,’ renowned philosophy Professor Ionna Kuçuradi said responding to President Erdoğan
A 17-year-old high school student sentenced to three months in jail by a Children’s Court for setting up tents during last year’s Gezi protests in İzmir has expressed his dismay for the ruling
Official talks on the Kurdish peace process may start in 10 days, the co-chair Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said in Moscow at an affiliate of a U.S.-based think tank.
Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek has issued a veiled yet public call for four ex-minister accused of corruption to be tried at the country’s Supreme Council, arguing that it would benefit the nation
A group of gynecologists said in an open letter that President Erdoğan would rather have to think twice before declaring both abortion and birth control as evil
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says he was the victim of betrayal committed by Gülen
U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is once again on the agenda of Turkish politics, with the main opposition party leader calling on him to reveal his ties with the ruling party as the one-time friends have become foes with recent operations in the country.

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