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[Kikapu]

I've said it before, that I have a hard time trusting most of what is written in the Turkish Media, specially anything that has to do with Cyprus. The reporters/columnists often lack any Journalistic Integrity to write the facts, but instead they follow Government's positions and talking points, despite what the International institutions opinions are. Whenever a News organization and it's so called reporters misrepresent the facts and are merely just representing the Governments views despite to the contrary in the International community, as the case is in dictatorship countries where the Governments view are printed rather than facts, I then cannot trust that News organisation any longer in what they report.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about. These two pictures below that are from the same News media, Hurriyet's "Daily Garbage", two different stories, two different dates (one day apart), two pictures are the exactly the same, but one has been doctored. I can understand News Medias using pictures on file for different stories, but doctoring them must be a no, no.

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istanbul-tests-tsunami-warning-system-2011-08-11_l.jpg

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-08-10
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-08-11

[CBBB]

Very interesting, but which picture did they doctor?

Looks like the second one as you can still see the shadow of the aircraft carrier.

[Kikapu]

Very interesting, but which picture did they doctor?

Looks like the second one as you can still see the shadow of the aircraft carrier.

Yes, I agree with you with your observations, although, they could have both been doctored, yet from another picture.

[wallace]

Did you expect anything else from the Turkish media? They call the RoC "Greek Cyprus" and the President recognised by the EU, UN and any other nation on the world the "leader of the GC community". If this is the way they inform their nation no wonder they will always stay in the middleages.

[Kikapu]

Did you expect anything else from the Turkish media? They call the RoC "Greek Cyprus" and the President recognised by the EU, UN and any other nation on the world the "leader of the GC community". If this is the way they inform their nation no wonder they will always stay in the middleages.

There's hope for the Turkish youth to change Turkey for the better, but then again, they may just leave Turkey the first chance they get, like joining the EU.

High-schoolers in Turkey critical of education system

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Some 61 percent of high school students who participated in the survey expressed critical sentiments about the education system.
More than half of high school students in Turkey are critical of the country’s education system while just 10 percent are satisfied with it, a recent report by Maltepe University researchers has revealed.

“[School] is too complicated and confusing. Covering this many subjects in a short amount of time makes things more difficult,” one ninth-grade female student from a religious vocational high school said in response to the survey.

“I find the education system in Turkey to be of very low quality. They are playing with our future,” said a 16-year-old eleventh-grader from a state high school.

The survey, conducted by Professors Bahattin and Belma Akþit, looked at young people’s opinions on the changing socio-cultural values of Turkish society. The authors said the data it reveals has “critical importance for understanding the modernization of Turkey.”

The academics surveyed 2,356 students from different types of high schools around the country; 61 percent of high school students who participated expressed critical sentiments about Turkey’s education system, while only 10 percent said they are content with their education.

Responses to other questions showed that 70 percent of the student participants want to live abroad, while 12 percent said they have already visited another country.

When it comes to which institutions or groups Turkey should join, the European Union was listed as the top preference but with less than 50 percent. Next on the list was the Islamic world with 20 percent.

Another highlighted part in the report focused on how young people follow current events. While 22 percent said they read newspapers, 90 percent said they watch TV and 45 percent said they read news online. Ninety-one percent of the participants said they have a Facebook account.

The survey also asked the students what they thought they could not give up. The highest percentage, 76 percent, said “friends,” followed by “music” (74 percent), “the Internet” (63 percent) and “religion” (53 percent). For students at religious vocational high schools, however, “religion” was their top response.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-08-02

[wallace]

Did you expect anything else from the Turkish media? They call the RoC "Greek Cyprus" and the President recognised by the EU, UN and any other nation on the world the "leader of the GC community". If this is the way they inform their nation no wonder they will always stay in the middleages.

There's hope for the Turkish youth to change Turkey for the better, but then again, they may just leave Turkey the first chance they get, like joining the EU.

High-schoolers in Turkey critical of education system

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News

Some 61 percent of high school students who participated in the survey expressed critical sentiments about the education system.
More than half of high school students in Turkey are critical of the country’s education system while just 10 percent are satisfied with it, a recent report by Maltepe University researchers has revealed.

“[School] is too complicated and confusing. Covering this many subjects in a short amount of time makes things more difficult,” one ninth-grade female student from a religious vocational high school said in response to the survey.

“I find the education system in Turkey to be of very low quality. They are playing with our future,” said a 16-year-old eleventh-grader from a state high school.

The survey, conducted by Professors Bahattin and Belma Akþit, looked at young people’s opinions on the changing socio-cultural values of Turkish society. The authors said the data it reveals has “critical importance for understanding the modernization of Turkey.”

The academics surveyed 2,356 students from different types of high schools around the country; 61 percent of high school students who participated expressed critical sentiments about Turkey’s education system, while only 10 percent said they are content with their education.

Responses to other questions showed that 70 percent of the student participants want to live abroad, while 12 percent said they have already visited another country.

When it comes to which institutions or groups Turkey should join, the European Union was listed as the top preference but with less than 50 percent. Next on the list was the Islamic world with 20 percent.

Another highlighted part in the report focused on how young people follow current events. While 22 percent said they read newspapers, 90 percent said they watch TV and 45 percent said they read news online. Ninety-one percent of the participants said they have a Facebook account.

The survey also asked the students what they thought they could not give up. The highest percentage, 76 percent, said “friends,” followed by “music” (74 percent), “the Internet” (63 percent) and “religion” (53 percent). For students at religious vocational high schools, however, “religion” was their top response.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2011-08-02

Well.....it's the religion part which worries me the most Kikapu. 70% wants to live abroad. Where? In the EU? They should have asked them why Turkey's EU accesion talks are going nowhere. I would love to hear what the've been told.

[Mapko]

I, too, have found that about Turk media...

This is how they doctored some pictures to show to the world the beautiful island of Cyprus -

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Whereas this is how it actually is -

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Bloody Turk media!!

[CBBB]

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[Kikapu]

VP has nothing to say on this thread!

Maybe the pictures were not doctored at all, and that David Copperfield made the largest object of his career, the Aircraft Carrier, disappear in broad daylight in the straits of Bosporus.

Now you see it, now you don't.

[wallace]

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That's what happened to me when I was there in July. One day it was there.....the next day it was gone.