Burak Ege Bekdil professional liar.

[Kebapçı Erhan]

I understand why the non-Turk companies hire this spineless guy, but Hürriyet???????????? I'm speechless

If you look at Hürriyet Daily they have a lot of articles geared towards trashing Turkey down. The most obvious is when they post wierd news stories on small events and give them nasty titles like Turkish Man Rapes chicken or something (I have seen at least 2 articles from them on this type of events). Then another recent article from them Titled "Turkish Economy May Collapse Soon". They also have opinion pieces telling people that vacation in Turkey is expensive and that Greece and other countries are cheaper. What kind of Turks are writing this? Why damage your country? You have a good platform for promoting your country but you do the opposite.

I you follow Turkish and English Hürriyet you will see the articles often differ from eachother, its a different staff with different audience.

Yeah the Turkish Hürriyet seems fine but the English one is appealing towards the anti Turkish crowd - orientalists. Obviously it works because most non Turks here are posting news about Turkey here from Hürriyet.

Daily Sabah is much better but it should also be somewhat critical of government policies instead of going along with everything but overall they do a good job of representing us in the media.

 

[xenon54 out]

Yeah the Turkish Hürriyet seems fine but the English one is appealing towards the anti Turkish crowd - orientalists. Obviously it works because most non Turks here are posting news about Turkey here from Hürriyet.

Daily Sabah is much better but it should also be somewhat critical of government policies instead of going along with everything but overall they do a good job of representing us in the media.

I think most balanced news can be read on NTV or CNN Türk, their news appears serious in contrary to the rest of Turkish media.

 

[Kebapçı Erhan]

I think most balanced news can be read on NTV or CNN Türk, their news appears serious in contrary to the rest of Turkish media.

Lately I like TRT World, they have good articles explaining Turkey's positions.

 

[bedbin]

Lately I like TRT World, they have good articles explaining Turkey's positions.

i like it too bro. nice to watch, what do you think about the workers announcers etc,

 

[Kebapçı Erhan]

i like it too bro. nice to watch, what do you think about the workers announcers etc,

They got a lot of experienced announcers swell as other staff. I have been watching RT, France24, and Al-jazeera english for a long time, a lot of the people we got used to work for those channels. They will bring much needed experience. If you check the people they follow you can find out more about their staff. I think the channel will do good but I think they need to make the colors more lively. The current blue-black,grey theme is not exciting enough especially if you replay things all day as these types of channels tend to do.

 

[Solomon2]

Burak Bokdil is a classical pen for hire. Everyone who independently follows Turkish defense developments and geopolitics can see that crystal clear in his dubious, sham articles. They ask him to push a certain viewpoint; be it badmouthing an ambitious Turkish project in favor of foreign products, making up news that don't exist, quoting imaginary officials who for some reason ALWAYS talk to him on "condition of anonymity"; the guy never fails to follow the orders of his masters to a tee. Luckily, only his own employers seem to see any value in his boring bullchit and Turkey's warmachine keeps on sailing ahead full steam.

I criticised Hamas and my life in Turkey became a nightmare
Burak Bekdil
April 1, 2017

My greatest sin was to argue: “The fact that there are no Israeli casualties does not mean Hamas does not want to kill; it just means Hamas, for the moment, cannot kill.”

• 
  It was a beautiful, sunny day in December 2006 when I met Shimon Peres at his Tel Aviv office. At one point in our conversation, he began to talk about how things were beginning to go wrong in Turkey. He said: “Do not forget … when holiness begins, reason ends.” I knew he was right.
  
  In 2006, the then Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was widely viewed as a Muslim democrat, a pro-EU reformist, a pro-business liberal; or, at worst, a postmodern Islamist — not just an Islamist.
  
  In reality, I argued in my Hurriyet column, he was just another Islamist zig-zagging between his ideological and pragmatic selves. He was successfully deceiving much of the Western world.
  
  Less than a decade later, having consolidated his power using a blend of nationalist, Sunni-Islamist rhetoric, populist sound bites and nods to Ottoman grandeur, he has been labelled “arguably the most virulent anti-Israel leader in the world.”
  
  At the end of the 15th century, Sultan Bayazid II embraced 250,000 Jews who had fled Spanish King Ferdinand’s Inquisition. In his wisdom, the Sultan realised the Alhambra Decree of 1492 had merely impoverished Spain and enriched Turkey.
  
  Countless wars, the Holocaust and over five centuries later, in Mr Erdogan’s Turkey, one can become a bête noire just for writing that Hamas’s charter and acts should qualify it as a terrorist organisation; that Jews do not belong to Alaska but to what is today Israel; that a suicide bomber who kills is just a suicide bomber regardless of his cause; and that Golda Meir was perfectly right when she said that “peace in the Middle East will come when Arabs love their children more than they hate us”.
  
  Hate speech of every flavour and threats pouring into your inbox are part of daily life when you write a column viewed as “too critical of Erdogan” in the English-language pages of the country’s biggest newspaper, Hurriyet. You can even smile and enjoy the rich spread of naive, ignorant and vulgar messages that come your way. It becomes so normal that by the time you sit down to start typing a new column, you have already forgotten about the stream of hatred. Within a few days, fresh bile will have piled up in your inbox. You keep smiling — and writing.
  
  Things took a different turn in the summer of 2014 when, spending time in my second home on a Greek island, friends told me that my picture was on the front page of the most militant Islamist newspaper, Yeni Akit — whose editors always find a seat aboard Mr Erdogan’s private jet during his state visits abroad.
  
  The “news” article called me “Aydin Dogan’s Zionist Soldier of Fortune” (Mr Dogan is the owner of the Dogan group that owns, among other prominent outlets, Hurriyet newspaper).
  
  Irrelevantly, I was accused of undermining Turkey’s defence industry and promoting the Israeli weapons lobby. But my greatest sin was to argue: “The fact that there are no Israeli casualties does not mean Hamas does not want to kill; it just means Hamas, for the moment, cannot kill.”
  
  Within 24 hours, Yeni Akit’s story was picked up by a dozen or so Islamist and pro-government media outlets. After a pro-government columnist, in his tweet, called me “The disgrace of humanity”, several others joined the lynching campaign on social media.
  
  “A sperm of Israel,” someone wrote. Another said: “Enmity against Islam spills from his face.” Someone else wished that I would travel to Gaza so that “the al-Qassam (brigade) could shoot him right in the middle of his forehead.” Another campaigner invited “this ignoble, inglorious Zionist leftover to leave for Israel”. Someone else wished, “May he and his family be bombed.” And yet another offered a DNA analysis from a photograph: “He must be either Armenian or Jewish.” Plenty of private email messages featured much less polite language and a diverse menu of threats. And why did I not file a complaint to the police or ask for protection? I was not sure who would protect me from the police.
  
  The campaign annoyed my editors and boss, but I kept writing provided that I would not write on “explosive” subjects. What were they? Well, you know. After a few attempts I stopped writing about the Arab-Israeli dispute. I did, however, continue to write on that subject for two other platforms: Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum and Nina Rosenwald’s Gatestone Institute.
  
  But things went from bad to worse in Turkey. My editors, understandably, were under pressure not to publish even a few lines of jokes or criticism in a column devoted to a non-Arab-Israeli dispute subject. I got the message. The increasingly difficult rules meant that my column could not contain any of the words “Jew, Israel, Israeli, Hamas, Hamas and terror and Palestine.”
  
  It worked. At least until December 2016, when my editors alerted me to a “very serious crisis that had terribly upset the big boss”.
  
  What could it be, since my last column was about the assassination of the Russian envoy to Ankara by an Islamist police officer?
  
  Once again I was on the front page of a pro-Erdogan newspaper, Aksam.
  
  How dare I compare a government plan to introduce “youth branches” that would be affiliated to 45,000 mosques to the Hitler Youth?
  
  Enough, the big boss said. Fine, I said. That was the end of a relationship that dated back to 1987.
  
  Sad? Sad. Nevertheless, I felt lucky. In Erdogan’s Turkey, I could have been prosecuted on charges of terrorism for writing that article.
  
  Burak Bekdil was a columnist for Hurriyet until December 2016
  

 

[M.AsfandYar]

unless you're a fanatic to whom facts don't matter.

Look who is talking.....
@Sinan

 

[-SINAN-]

Burak Bekdil was a columnist for Hurriyet until December 2016

Nice. I didn't know he had been fired.

Now, he can go to Israel and continue his anti-Turkish scribbles.

 

[Hafiz-Zafar]

I have been to Turkey and it is one of the most beautiful, progressive and moderate Muslim countries.

 

[-------]

Before Burak Bokdil, that zilli Lale Sariibrahimoglu use to do the same thing. Those two individuals do it for the money, they are given directives by whom they are writing for. Which makes them honorless sellouts and should rightly be put under the spotlight.

 

[xenon54 out]

I criticised Hamas and my life in Turkey became a nightmare
Burak Bekdil
April 1, 2017

My greatest sin was to argue: “The fact that there are no Israeli casualties does not mean Hamas does not want to kill; it just means Hamas, for the moment, cannot kill.”

• 
  It was a beautiful, sunny day in December 2006 when I met Shimon Peres at his Tel Aviv office. At one point in our conversation, he began to talk about how things were beginning to go wrong in Turkey. He said: “Do not forget … when holiness begins, reason ends.” I knew he was right.
  
  In 2006, the then Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was widely viewed as a Muslim democrat, a pro-EU reformist, a pro-business liberal; or, at worst, a postmodern Islamist — not just an Islamist.
  
  In reality, I argued in my Hurriyet column, he was just another Islamist zig-zagging between his ideological and pragmatic selves. He was successfully deceiving much of the Western world.
  
  Less than a decade later, having consolidated his power using a blend of nationalist, Sunni-Islamist rhetoric, populist sound bites and nods to Ottoman grandeur, he has been labelled “arguably the most virulent anti-Israel leader in the world.”
  
  At the end of the 15th century, Sultan Bayazid II embraced 250,000 Jews who had fled Spanish King Ferdinand’s Inquisition. In his wisdom, the Sultan realised the Alhambra Decree of 1492 had merely impoverished Spain and enriched Turkey.
  
  Countless wars, the Holocaust and over five centuries later, in Mr Erdogan’s Turkey, one can become a bête noire just for writing that Hamas’s charter and acts should qualify it as a terrorist organisation; that Jews do not belong to Alaska but to what is today Israel; that a suicide bomber who kills is just a suicide bomber regardless of his cause; and that Golda Meir was perfectly right when she said that “peace in the Middle East will come when Arabs love their children more than they hate us”.
  
  Hate speech of every flavour and threats pouring into your inbox are part of daily life when you write a column viewed as “too critical of Erdogan” in the English-language pages of the country’s biggest newspaper, Hurriyet. You can even smile and enjoy the rich spread of naive, ignorant and vulgar messages that come your way. It becomes so normal that by the time you sit down to start typing a new column, you have already forgotten about the stream of hatred. Within a few days, fresh bile will have piled up in your inbox. You keep smiling — and writing.
  
  Things took a different turn in the summer of 2014 when, spending time in my second home on a Greek island, friends told me that my picture was on the front page of the most militant Islamist newspaper, Yeni Akit — whose editors always find a seat aboard Mr Erdogan’s private jet during his state visits abroad.
  
  The “news” article called me “Aydin Dogan’s Zionist Soldier of Fortune” (Mr Dogan is the owner of the Dogan group that owns, among other prominent outlets, Hurriyet newspaper).
  
  Irrelevantly, I was accused of undermining Turkey’s defence industry and promoting the Israeli weapons lobby. But my greatest sin was to argue: “The fact that there are no Israeli casualties does not mean Hamas does not want to kill; it just means Hamas, for the moment, cannot kill.”
  
  Within 24 hours, Yeni Akit’s story was picked up by a dozen or so Islamist and pro-government media outlets. After a pro-government columnist, in his tweet, called me “The disgrace of humanity”, several others joined the lynching campaign on social media.
  
  “A sperm of Israel,” someone wrote. Another said: “Enmity against Islam spills from his face.” Someone else wished that I would travel to Gaza so that “the al-Qassam (brigade) could shoot him right in the middle of his forehead.” Another campaigner invited “this ignoble, inglorious Zionist leftover to leave for Israel”. Someone else wished, “May he and his family be bombed.” And yet another offered a DNA analysis from a photograph: “He must be either Armenian or Jewish.” Plenty of private email messages featured much less polite language and a diverse menu of threats. And why did I not file a complaint to the police or ask for protection? I was not sure who would protect me from the police.
  
  The campaign annoyed my editors and boss, but I kept writing provided that I would not write on “explosive” subjects. What were they? Well, you know. After a few attempts I stopped writing about the Arab-Israeli dispute. I did, however, continue to write on that subject for two other platforms: Daniel Pipes’s Middle East Forum and Nina Rosenwald’s Gatestone Institute.
  
  But things went from bad to worse in Turkey. My editors, understandably, were under pressure not to publish even a few lines of jokes or criticism in a column devoted to a non-Arab-Israeli dispute subject. I got the message. The increasingly difficult rules meant that my column could not contain any of the words “Jew, Israel, Israeli, Hamas, Hamas and terror and Palestine.”
  
  It worked. At least until December 2016, when my editors alerted me to a “very serious crisis that had terribly upset the big boss”.
  
  What could it be, since my last column was about the assassination of the Russian envoy to Ankara by an Islamist police officer?
  
  Once again I was on the front page of a pro-Erdogan newspaper, Aksam.
  
  How dare I compare a government plan to introduce “youth branches” that would be affiliated to 45,000 mosques to the Hitler Youth?
  
  Enough, the big boss said. Fine, I said. That was the end of a relationship that dated back to 1987.
  
  Sad? Sad. Nevertheless, I felt lucky. In Erdogan’s Turkey, I could have been prosecuted on charges of terrorism for writing that article.
  
  Burak Bekdil was a columnist for Hurriyet until December 2016

He isnt hated for critisizing hamas, in fact Turks barely care about hamas at all and millions of Turks themselves critisize our goverments foreign political suicide for the sake of hamas.

What killed him is his attitude of telling lies instead of making constructive critisizm, many members in this forum caught him lying shamelessly even on defence projects.
He is just looking for an excuse for his failure, what else could be better than playing the anti semitizm card?

 

[Solomon2]

...Those two individuals do it for the money -

An easy claim to make but in B.B.'s case at least it's a tough one to sustain, since all he had to do was change his tune to keep writing for money.