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shared by Pedro Gonçalves on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • A popular cartoon making the rounds in Turkey these days shows viewers watching a documentary on penguins on CNN Turk (which is, literally, what the channel broadcast during the uprising). Meanwhile, the other frame shows penguins watching CNN International with live coverage of protests in Istanbul.
  • When the democratically elected Erdogan slammed social media as “the worst menace to society” last week
  • the prime minister himself is an avid Twitter user with over 2.8 million followers.
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  • 25 bloggers were arrested and charged with sedition
  • What explains his rage is that, had it not been for social media, the government would likely have succeeded in hiding the protests from many Turks. Turkey is a country that jails more journalists than Iran, and it is hardly surprising that the mainstream Turkish media, which has been additionally co-opted by the authorities through financial measures, broadcast pictures of beauty contests and cooking shows for several days while parts of Istanbul and other cities were blanketed with tear gas.
  • While international news organizations and some alternative outlets in Turkey played a role in breaking the media’s silence, social media took the lead.
  • Besides arresting and intimidating bloggers, the authorities made several attempts to choke access to Facebook and Twitter, as well as blocking cell phone communications (which your correspondent experienced on June 1 in Istanbul). The deputy prime minister ominously cautioned that “It's possible to shut it [Internet] all down," much in the same manner as the Egyptian government had done two years earlier.
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