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2. Insult to Rival: Erdoğan said for Baykal during the meetings of Kırklareli and
Tekirdağ “if you give him 10 sheeps he’ll lose, he cannot manage”.
3. Criticism to Rival: News includes most of Erdoğan criticism about other parties.
For instance: “They only put rocks to service caravan”. “They do not have the concept
of service. The only thing they know is to scratch, to fling dirt, make demagogy.”
4. Measures to Economic Crisis: Erdoğan said “All institutions, Our Treasury, Our
Central Bank, follow the crisis closely” and added: “Until now we took approximately
40 measures and started to apply them. Turkey is in safe hands. Corruption,
prohibition, poverty… We are determined to carry on our struggle against them.”
5. Defense to Critics: Erdoğan overreacted to “Most of governors graduated from
religious high schools” critics and defended himself by “I have graduated from a
religious high school but I have never been in such a discrimination” statement.
6. Warning to Employer: Erdoğan, “Do not lay-off, there is short-time work, we
propose you to pay half of short-time work. We, the government, will give you this
support for six months. There are people who do not respect this. They will pay off.”
7. Promise: Prime Minister Erdoğan gave to peasants a piece of good: “We extend the
terms of agricultural credits of Ziraat Bank. Investment credit terms will be extended
to 7 years from 5 years and business enterprise credit terms to 24 months from 18
months.”
8. Particular Criticism to CHP leader Baykal: News about public speeches of AKP
leader Erdoğan includes several criticisms especially about CHP leader Baykal.
Erdoğan said for Baykal, “He does not have the ideal to be in government. Public
proclaimed him eternal opposition leader”. Erdoğan added “Baykal accepts his defeat
now discusses how many goals he will concede. Yesterday he was pissed off in
Çağlayan and said “you cannot invoke İnönü’s name. You do not hold the title of my
mouth.”
9. Criticism to Yüksek Seçim Kurulu (Presiding Office) about Turban: Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdoğan just before the elections flayed YSK about its decision to
prohibit headscarf of Polling Board Officers.
Results:
Sabah newspaper during the local elections of March 29 th , 2009 supported obviously
AKP and became a partisan press. The support is pronounced by the allocation of a higher
amount of news and photographs to that party. It is carried on by the use of news also (general
features of news). Additionally newspaper reserved an important place to AKP leader Recep
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