Saithan
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Lol, didn't pay attention to the picture. But the same princip applies on aircraft carriers as far as I knowbut this system is for airfields not the ship
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Lol, didn't pay attention to the picture. But the same princip applies on aircraft carriers as far as I knowbut this system is for airfields not the ship
I'm sure they calculate it according to the production price. Ismail Demir was asked about the 65% domestic in the military industry and how they calculated it, and he replied they looked at the price if I recall correctly.I always wonder how they calculate "domesticness". Bayraktar said It will be 80 percent domestic. What does that mean? For every 100$ we use 80$ domestic product or for every 100 piece we use 80 domestic piece? Great achivement btw
Yüzde 80 yerli derken 100 liralık parçanın 80 lirası mı yerli, yoksa 100 parça sistemin 80 parçası mı yerli?
Yeah, giving 9 years jail for a tweet... Go try to fool foreigners.
Appeals court upholds nine-year jail sentence against CHP’s Istanbul chair Kaftancıoğlu
It depends on the content of the tweet to be honest. Now I don't know what was written in the actual tweet or tweets themselves, but Twitter and other social media can be used as an effective way for propaganda and provokations.In what world is 9 years for a tweet just?
Brother, what you are essentially talking about is, how to regulate social media. I honestly believe that is not up for us but law-makers, NGOs, and jurisdiction. They can form consensus and decide on regulations. Also these regulations have to be in line with our constitution and universal human rights, like Freedom of Speech, Freedom of gathering, etc.It depends on the content of the tweet to be honest. Now I don't know what was written in the actual tweet or tweets themselves, but Twitter and other social media can be used as an effective way for propaganda and provokations.
Most recent example is how social media including twitter is being used in the mass protests in the US. We can not underestimate the power of social media regarding misinformation, provokations or other ways of manipulating people. ISIS for instance was able to recruit thousands from various parts of the world through social media.
Social media is another layer of war. Normally you have land, air, ground and sea. But recent times added electronic and information warfare to this. Twitter and other social media is also a war ground and it is not to be underestimeted. From what I can tell Turkey does have a good effort in combating this, but it is still a soft belly for the country. Those FETO guys from abroad are tweeting all sorts of nonsense daily which can have a cumulative effect on the psyche of people (which is their goal with these tweets). The human mind is very fragile like that.
Is 9 years to much for a few tweets? I don't know, it could be but it could also be too little. I have to read the tweets in question to be the judge myself and need to have knowledge on what grounds (which articles from which law-book). But according to the article she was tried for: “insulting the President and spreading terrorist propaganda.” This is a pretty serious accusation and not te be underestimated.
Yes, even the 'insulting the president' is a serious offense and here is why: The failed coup a couple of years back, it was known that a coup d'etat is a bad thing for a democracy right? So you need a good excuse to justify a coup in this case. That good excuse is "Erdogan is a dictator, bad man, etc". You plant this sentiment by persistantly badmouthing him and even instulting him. This has a cumulative effect and eventually it changes peoples minds or at the very least stay impatial and tolerate a coup, and yes not everyone's opinions are changed and that is not their goal. Their goal is to change enough people's minds so that resistance is low.
I noticed that western media started putting Erdogan in a bad spotlight since 2011 or 2012. And usually this happens when the US in particular is looking for a regime change in a country. That is why certain people are called dictators etc, while other leaders are completely ignored even though they actually deserve the title (because those other leaders are tolerated). Media doing character assassinations like this usually signal bad things to come, in Turkey's case it was the Gezi protests, 17 aralik, failed coup d'etat, currency speculations and it is still somewhat ongoing. They attack whichever soft spot they can find. This doenst happen to just Erdogan by they way, but other world leaders and countries too.We know it was the west behind the failed coup because of them consistantly harboring Turkey's enemies (FETO, PKK) and how the coup and aftermath was depicted as in their media.
This also happens internally in Turkey too (because the political level in Turkey is low, the rhetoric is at least), they are very much like the US in that regard (republicans vs democrats, CNN vs Fox etc). You see daily manipulations from regular media and journalist (let alone what happens on social media) to influence our opinions. Tweezing a quote from a speech to manipulate, while the speech itself was not even about what they spinned it too. Or putting a spin on certain events in order to make a certain person or party look bad. Politicians themselves are even guilty of this in their own speeches sometimes. This happens in all parts of the political spectrum, I am not singling out a certain group of political entities/media here. They are all doing it (some worse than others, while some are at least trying to be objective, which I appreciate). That is why we hear, the words 'corrupt', 'traitor' and stuff like this on the daily. This isn't what a healthy political sphere is supposed to look like. Imagine Ronaldo and Messi, they want to become the best footballer in the world. Instead of training to become the best, they are looking to injure eachother and take him out so that the other one becomes the best by default. Sadly this is the state of business in Turkish politics and media by extension, and has been like this for decades now. I do sometimes see a shimmer of high level politics shining through or occasionally critisize this issue, which does make me optmistic at times suggesting that they are aware of this problem, but for now the status quo is low level politics/media.