as we all know the Media scaremongering will effect the visitors to Turkey
Just curious, what scaremongering has there been in the media?
I know the Daily Mail is always anti Turkey and will print any old bollox if shows Turkey in a bad light, but it has been doing that for years. The media coverage I've seen has generally been fairly well balanced, and a lot less biased than it could be. Sometimes you have to accept that beyond a particular area (bubble?) there are bad things happening in a country.
JF
The Daily Express has run almost identical stories this year telling people not to come to Turkey this year because of terrorism....or go to Egypt...or Spain.... And I *mean* almost identical as in they are using the same base copy for each one.
Why? Because if they can scare people into staying at home in the UK rather than go abroad, their circulation figures don't drop as much over the holiday season. I'm not speculating here - a friend of mine on a national newsdesk has told me it is a deliberate ploy.
Ok, so what you are saying is that this is a plot by the newspaper industry to boost ailing circulation figures? Seriously?
On the basis that you don't normally post rubbish, I just floated your theory past a News Editor of a national daily (mate of mine for 25yrs plus). He liked it. In fact, he liked it so much he's going to raise it at their editorial meeting in the morning. Actually he didn't. He laughed like a drain as I knew he would and suggested that too much Xmas spirit had been consumed by someone - or that someone was possibly being wound up (he used different words, newspaperly words that I can't remember
).
He's a good pal and I like to cheer him up with little nuggets like this.
Anyway, back to the original point. The current advice from the FCO when travelling to Turkey is:
"There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate and could affect places visited by foreigners."
While resorts like Kalkan, Fethiye, Calis etc are unlikely (at this time) to be the subjects of an attack, the threat is still there. So you have to ask, are they scaremongering or are they simply regurgitating what the British government say?
Over the past year there is a lot that could have been published in respect of Turkey and its relationship with IS, but it hasn't been. Will that change in the next few months... who knows. There is also a lot that could have been published relating to the number of folks killed by the Polis, by MiT and by "other forces" (to use an Erdoganism) - but it hasn't.
I stand by my original statement, recent coverage has been fairly well balanced - the sporadic sensationalist headlines and ill informed articles written about Turkey are nothing new, it's been that way for years.
JF
