Turkey’s democratic challenges beyond the election
Interview by Frederic Krull
One week after the decisive victory of the opposition party CHP over the ruling government’s party AKP in the Istanbul mayoral elections on 23 June, the ECPMF’ journalists in residence Nasan Öscan and Murat Bay are speaking out about Turkey’s democratic challenge and whether we can expect a positive influence on the Turkish media landscape as well.
Prior to the re-run of the elections, we have seen smear campaigns, biased reporting over the candidates and misleading information, spread by pro-government media outlets. Yet Istanbul’s voters did not seem to be affected by such strategies. The obviously biased…