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[Paphitis]

MSNBC is doing a survey on whether the Armenian Genocide should be recognized or not.

As of a few minutes ago the numbers showed Yes 20%, No 80%!

The Turks have mobilized a global campaign to shift results towards "No"
but we can't let them.

The Armenian Genocide is a historical fact, along with other many other crimes against humanity.

Please vote ' YES ' at the below link and send it to everyone you know.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21253084

[Nikephoros]

Fanatic muslim and relentless censorship Turks have a long and proud history of interfering in simple online polls. They do this by making simple online polls a huge news story that is even printed in their newspapers urging patriotic Turks to vote.

Past examples:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/despatches/europe/18385.stm
"Shortly after Time magazine announced its poll earlier this year, votes for Ataturk began to pour in from Turkey by letter, by fax and on the Internet. A campaign orchestrated by the Turkish press was encouraged by leading politicians -- it seemed to be a matter of national honour. As giant billboard posters of Ataturk appeared all over the capital on Republic Day, it became clear that the campaign was producing unusual results. A quick check on Time's Internet site reveals that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- a man who is hardly a household name outside his own country -- is leading in every category as the century's most influential figure. As warrior and statesman, he's pulling ahead of Winston Churchill. As artist and entertainer, he's left Bob Dylan in second place. As scientist and healer, Albert Einstein is not even relatively close to the Ataturk bandwagon. And so the list goes on. Well over a million votes have already been cast and there seems no dampening of enthusiasm here for an Ataturk victory. When Winston Churchill briefly pulled ahead in one category, a Turkish newspaper analysed the voting patterns and announced that people in Greece and Cyprus had latched onto Churchill as the only man to stop Ataturk."

[Note by Nikephoros: Yeah right, keep thinking that sh1thead Turkish ultra-nationalist conspiracy theorists, that Greek newspapers emulate sh1thead Turkish conpsiracy and ultra-nationalist journalists. Bad as Greek journalists are they are not Turkish level yet.]

Another example of the Turkish press distorting an online poll in favor of Miss Turkey:

http://www.talkturkey.us/2006/07/turkish_flavor_.html
"Exactly a week after I posted the original story regarding Miss Universe and the ongoing poll at the 'Missosology' website, out comes today's 'Hurriyet,' the Turkish daily (reputable but somewhat of the sensationalist nature,) with a 'coincidental' article about the very same thing. Except this time, the writer of the article is misleading the public into thinking that a vote for Miss Turkey will result in her somehow easily winning the crown. Am I missing something here or are they misinformed, and don't realize that Missosology (setup for the sole purpose of analyzing beauty pageants) is a 'far-eastern' based website, one of many 'unofficial' sites designed to promote candidates from their perspective points of origin. In fact, out of the 100,000 plus votes cast so far, Miss USA has only received about 300 or so votes, with Miss Indonesia at the top. Hardly a definitive poll for, after all, an American event. (UPDATE: Since then, Hurriyet has changed the article and erased any references to the original mis-representation of the facts.)"

When Ocalan was arrested Time Magazine covered it:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/ocalan/

They had a poll that asked:
You think the Kurdish quest for statehood is:
Valid
Invalid
No Opinion
Turkish media again intervened on that lowly web poll.

Now for the specific MSNBC genocide recognition poll the following Turkish newspapers are campaigning to alter the results by making stories about the poll with instructions for Turks to vote:
http://www.turkiyegazetesi.com.tr/haber ... rid=350336
http://www.hurriyetusa.com/haber/haber_ ... p?id=13284
http://www.turkei.net/news_detail.php?id=27914
http://www.dunyabulteni.net/news_detail.php?id=25603
http://www.karapapak.net/turkce/haberler.aspx?id=458
http://www9.gazetevatan.com/haberdetay. ... egoryid=30
http://www.gelecekonline.com/haber/habe ... nketi.html
http://www.8sutun.com/node/42648
http://haber10.com/haber/96238/
http://www.sonhaber.com/tr/haber_detay. ... r_id=14287

These keywords used in Google will show the magnitude of this Turkish campaign:
link: feature in Google.
Or by searching the following keywords:
ermeni http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21253084/
MSNBC.com Ermeni soykırımıyla
MSNBC’nin soykırım
MSNBC Anketi Ermeni

Obviously, incidents like this shows what fanatic, stupid and petty scumbags the Turkish media really are. And it also shows the overblown sense of Sunni muslim/Kemalist pride. If I was a Turk(thankfully I am not) I would be highly embarrassed by my media being mobilizied to such heights consistently to divert the results of simple international web polls to fit the fascistic official ideology(Kemalism).