Twitter and Facebook can be used as a dangerous manipulation and propaganda tool as it is the case on the events currently happening in Turkey. Probably you noticed the "OccupyGezi" trending topic in recent days. They spreaded lies, photoshopped photos, edited videos and used old news in twitter and stated "police are killing us bla bla.." Most of these are lies. There is currently no revolution or civil-war in Turkey. Only in a few districs, some marginal groups organize people to protest.
The sad thing is, the world believes in the **** spreaded by the liers in Twitter. I saw even Bruce Willis tweeted "We must help to Turkish people" or something. That is both funny and sad.
I have learned to never to believe anything i saw in Twitter/Facebook after this time. There is a big variety of media organs which can be used to compare/contrast to see the real picture.
About what is happening in Turkey right now: AKP, the leading party, has been elected with %45-%50 rate of votes in the latest 3 elections. They are the first party to maintain it three times, and with an increasing number of votes. This year, the government came a great deal in ending the PKK terrorism as there has been no conflicts since 5-6 months. Just as we had grasped internal peace, some people are trying to start something else to maintain chaos in our country.
Here is the reason for the stupid OccupyGezi protests:
-Cutting a dozen of trees to increase the pavement's width: AKP turned Istanbul into a green city in 10 years, yet these people are protesting them for cutting a bunch of trees to restorate a public space. Just as the protests begin, all anti-AKP gathered in Taksim and started a so called "revolution". Now for some trees, they attacked to police, they burned down shops in Taksim and burning cars of civilians. What is the point?!
They understood that they can't beat AKP with elections and try violent ways now. Please do not believe in the stupids lies at Twitter.
The sad thing is, the world believes in the **** spreaded by the liers in Twitter. I saw even Bruce Willis tweeted "We must help to Turkish people" or something. That is both funny and sad.
I have learned to never to believe anything i saw in Twitter/Facebook after this time. There is a big variety of media organs which can be used to compare/contrast to see the real picture.
About what is happening in Turkey right now: AKP, the leading party, has been elected with %45-%50 rate of votes in the latest 3 elections. They are the first party to maintain it three times, and with an increasing number of votes. This year, the government came a great deal in ending the PKK terrorism as there has been no conflicts since 5-6 months. Just as we had grasped internal peace, some people are trying to start something else to maintain chaos in our country.
Here is the reason for the stupid OccupyGezi protests:
-Cutting a dozen of trees to increase the pavement's width: AKP turned Istanbul into a green city in 10 years, yet these people are protesting them for cutting a bunch of trees to restorate a public space. Just as the protests begin, all anti-AKP gathered in Taksim and started a so called "revolution". Now for some trees, they attacked to police, they burned down shops in Taksim and burning cars of civilians. What is the point?!
They understood that they can't beat AKP with elections and try violent ways now. Please do not believe in the stupids lies at Twitter.