Türkiye: Economist and The Washington Post v. Erdogan – his response

Two of the world’s most famous and authoritative media outlets, The Economist and Washington Post, have succeeded in their articles against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ahead of the Turkish elections on May 14.

More specifically, Mr economicin his article titled “If Turkey overthrows its authoritarian leader, democrats around the world will take heart” he described the 2023 Turkish elections as the most important on the planet, while taking a clear stand in favor of Kilicdaroglu, noting that the victory, would be “a great moment for Turkey, Europe and the struggle world for real democracy.

In its comprehensive article, the magazine analyzes Erdoğan’s economic, foreign, and human rights policies, and criticizes many of them.

and the Washington Post However, in an opinion article entitled “Increasing authoritarianism looms over the Turkish elections,” signed by the editorial team of the American newspaper, it criticizes Erdogan’s foreign policy, which he manipulates between the West and Russia. But mainly, the Washington Post editors refer to what he did inside his country, as “the deepest and possibly permanent internal damage,” as they characteristically write. He has jailed political opponents, journalists and pundits, and curtailed the space to flourish in Turkey’s once vibrant civil society – a crackdown that has intensified since a failed coup attempt in July 2016.

Erdogan replied

The Turkish president made an angry statement about the criticism leveled at him by the major Western media: “We will not allow our domestic politics and magazine covers to be directed by the working mechanism of world powers,” Erdogan said, among other things.