Bad government is better than a coup

What do local media write about the rebellion in Turkey

On the night of July 16, a military group tried to conduct a coup in Turkey. They blocked two bridges through the Bosphorus Strait and, with the help of tanks and military aviation, tried to take control of key points in Ankara and Istanbul. By morning, the army units loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suppressed the rebellion. "Medusa" asked an orientalist-plurkologist and journalist RBTH to Ekaterina Chulkovskaya to tell that the Turkish press writes about these events.

Proper media

The publications supporting the Erdogan course write that behind the attempt to a coup is the Hismet Movement of public figure Fethullah Gulen . The Turkish authorities call the organization Feto (Fetullahçı Terör örgütü) by the terrorist group of Fethullahchistov. The suppression of the rebellion in the official media is called the "victory of democracy."

“We have seen a sufficient number of coups in the history of Turkey. But we first saw the resistance of the people. This night has become a historical night, ” writes the newspaper Sabah. Another pro -government newspaper - “Yeni Shafak” - notes that the coup was suppressed only thanks to the genius of Recep Erdogan and his team. “This head of the terrorists from Pennsylvania wanted to seize Turkey. He wanted to fill in the country with a sea of ​​blood, ”the publication adds .

Other media

Opposition media also condemn the attempt of a military coup, but do not share the version of the authorities that Gulen's supporters were its organizers. The most influential opposition newspaper "Hurriet" published a comment by Fethullah Gulen - he resolutely rejected the accusations against him and said that his movement had nothing to do with rebellion. “As a person who has suffered from military coups that have been in the country in the past 50 years, I am especially insulted by the fact that I have been accused of this. I categorically deny any connection with the attempt of the coup, ”said Gulen on the pages of“ Hurriet ”.

The consistent critic of the Turkish authorities Ahmet Hakan (last year, Erdogan supporters made an attempt on him) published in the publication a column under the heading "Yesterday was the day of supporters of democracy." According to Khakan, "even a bad civil government is better than a coup." “Until that time, I criticized the president, representative office, ministers a lot and harshly. But I feel endless respect for the authorities for their yesterday’s actions, ”Hakan admitted.

The editor -in -chief of the English version of Hurriet, Murat Yetkin, called the incident “nightmare”, and the famous journalist Ertugrul Ozkek wrote that “democracy won”.

"The decision is democracy." With such a heading, the Jumkhuriet newspaper was released, headed by Jan Dundar, one of the main critics of Erdogan. He published materials on how Turkish trucks transport weapons to Syrian areas that control radical groups. For this, Dundar was arrested in November last year on charges of treason. Jumkhuriete journalists write that they condemn any coups - both civilian and military.