DEN YA - Today's Zaman

92 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2012
The “opinion empire”
of media weakens
hmet Turan Alkan is one of the master
writers of the media, drawing attention
with his own style of articles and
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with his approach to severe topics of the hectic
agenda. Outspoken about what he knows
to be right, Alkan finally written clearly that
he is against the mosque project at Çamlıca,
which was announced by the Prime Minister.
Describing the attempt as “a populist
and political project, Zaman Newspaper and
Aksiyon Magazine writer Ahmet Turan Alkan
thinks that the biggest problem of Turkish
media is lack of truth feeling: “The Turkish
media flatters, slavers and butters up its
reader. The worries on sales and circulation,
the concern on determining the agenda and
the desire of newspaper owners to take role
in the game of power weaken the truth feeling.”
Alkan states that he does not take place
in the new cult called social media and
thinks that this fashion will end soon.
Talking about several topics briefly and
concisely from football to politics, architecture
to digital media, journalists giving testimony
to coup commission to Sivas-Madımak
incidents, Ahmet Turan Alkan answered to
the questions of Cihan Media News Magazine
with his ironic and teasing style. Alkan
has started on a football diet and tries keeping
away from these arguments and also
has a proposal which would be argued a lot:
“Plenty of sculptures should be made; the
sculptures of all important actors currently
available in the football market should be
made...” Any person with a sculpture
cannot resist for more than 10 days,
this is why; this would be a good
cleaning, a fresh blood appears
in football; a new perspective
and a new approach,
a new morale comes
for football; this is why I
have developed this new
project! Let it be a gift
for my country.”