Notes on Al-Jazeera article
This is noted I took few years ago on an article mentioned below. I found them in my email and thought will post them here for safe keeping. The article titled “ Erdogan and Gulen: A political battle through the courts ” have landed in my inbox today and having an interest in the topic I read it immediately. To my amazement, the article looked like it was translated from Yeni Akit, a daily newspaper which made its duty to justify everything and anything government and Erdogan does and blame everything on Gülen and his movement. I have decided that I should jot down some notes on the problematic aspects of the article. Her we go… Firstly, some serious assumptions which are based on allegation by mostly AKP media in Turkey with no tangible proof have been included as if they are agreed upon claims. In addition, unfortunately, the corruption allegations have just been briefly mentioned and the scope of it is undermined. This grossly threatens the objectivity of the articl...