President Erdogan wins Turkey's vote with the media singing from the same hymn sheet. Plus, polarised media in DR Congo.
Turkey's elections and the media
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered his re-election victory speech last week, he spoke of "one nation, one flag, one state".
He could have taken it a step further and talked about one media and one voice - his own. Because that's the way the campaign was covered. The main state-owned TV channel, TRT, behaviour made it clear that it was, indeed, state-run, and privately owned broadcasters weren't much better.
Since coming to power in 2003, Erdogan has overseen a restructuring of the country's media space. Hundreds of journalists have been jailed. And hundreds of media outlets have been shut down, accused of terrorism.
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