In principle the logic is immanent.
If you need to deny, a real good move is to undermine information which could state the opposite of what you want to deny. 'Isolation of possible opposers' is part of any perpetrator's repertoire and necessities. Or, as the often used quotation states: 'divide et impera' - divide and rule.
A part of this is cutting off communication media where doable. Not all is doable though.
Another part is cutting the opposers' to your plans but also the public media, in general.
I am very much surprised that global media are not reflecting this topic much more as this would be the only appropriate reaction. There should be a global outcry, if not for the Kurdish then already for this reason of cut-off media. Turkey is not anywhere - Turkey is for decades trying to become a player In Europe, too, which would be reason enough to observe thouroughly. Any journalist would naturally become curious even more what is going on when a country to which most people have been for cultural or relaxing holidays acts like this. I mean, I would if that was my profession.
Anyway, after a serious assault on a veteran journalist it looks like there is not only general necessity but also urgency to act:
National
03 October 2015 Saturday, 14:55
Journalists take to Istanbul streets in demonstration against media suppression
In the wake of growing government-backed suppression of the media, professional journalist associations from across Turkey organized a demonstration in Istanbul’s central Beyoğlu district Saturday afternoon condemning the frequent raids, censorship and now assaults of journalists.
[...] The protest comes in the wake of an assault against veteran journalist Ahmet Hakan Wednesday night. Ahmet Hakan was assaulted by four attackers as he was about to enter his residence in the Nişantaşı quarter of Istanbul’s Şişli district. The four assailants were detained soon after.
Ahmet Hakan and the Doğan Media Group for which he works have been frequently singled out by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and its supporters.
Wednesday’s attack was preceded last month by a physical attack on daily Hürriyet’s headquarters in Istanbul by an angry mob of AK Party supporters. That mob had gathered after the institution was singled out by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a television interview.
Erdoğan had suggested that the reason for the ongoing violence in Turkey was that he had not been given absolute authority and made an executive president with no checks and balances, as opposed to the largely ceremonial role the constitution currently grants the president, implying that if he is granted such authority the violence too would cease. [...]
Here, well pointed out, it is also easy to see the full logic of Mr Saruman's actions:
"It is your fault that I must be violent".
Like a baby child. Unfortunately, not so easy to stop.
As with Adolf Hitler's childhood, also here it would be more than interesting what went wrong explicitely that this boy could not become a man but only a cheap but dangerous abuser. Usually it is an underlying minority complex which makes persons act like that.
- Initiates clashes
- Blames the victim
- Isolates the victim
- Receives response
- Beats the victim even more, trys to shut it up, claiming victim was initiator
- Can not control it anymore, people notice
- Denial works for some time, and from a point on not anymore
- Threatens or gets rid those who would speak up and dismantle his true nature.
Congratulations and thanks to the journalists who went to street today.
I wish those would become many more despite the fact that the backward oriented fascists are quite on the rise, a serious threat as noticed.
Meanwhile, people in Silvan and Nusaybin are not at all relieved.
As in the curfews before, civilians of any age are being targetted by snipers, wounded can not be brought to hospitals, looks like every infrastructure is being destroyed and even staff of ambulances and hospital shot.
Men are being taken away if not shot immediately - and you know, once you have identified someone as a
serious serial lyar
no person with a last bit of brains would believe for a second claims that those were militants.
It is just so difficult for a native dictator to have to act as if he would follow democratic rules like elections or such stuff.
There is a whole people witness plus those people of other peoples who are not blind.
Lyn
