Emin Colasan is fired? What will be the reaction?

Question

In Turkey, our valuable writer Emin Çölaşan, while he had taken a firm position against the government reflecting his republican and his behaviour adherent of Ataturk’s policy, was fired on 14\08\07 as Hurriyet the newspaper was sold to the political authorities. We, as Çölaşan lovers, have stopped buying Hurriyet to show that we are together in this road with him. To support us and not to be pawns of the government, please share your answers!!

Answer 1

We will see how  the other columnists in the same political line in Hurriyet will behave. I would expect Ozdemir Ince, Yalcin Dogan, Oktay Eksi, Mehmet Y. Yilmaz, Bekir Coskun and Yilmaz Ozdil to resign.

We will see how strong they are to stand up against injustice. It is easier to write critics when you get paid. Do they have enough courage and integrity to risk their income ?

We will see...

Aydin Toronto

Answer 2

I've been reading  WallSJ and Hurriyet for years. However, without E. Colasan,  Hurriyet has no value. So, it's gone for me.

Answer 3

IF NOT FIRED, COLASAN WAS BEING HARASSED TO LIFT PRESSURE ON THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEY. "HURRIYET" ITSELF IS BENT UNDER THE GOVERNMENT PRESSURE AND LOOKS LIKE WILL FALL SILENT AS THE ATATURK'S REPUBLIC GETS SLOWLY BROUGHT TO IT'S KNEES.

Answer 4

The reaction will be nothing more than a tear going down behind a hardly and well-established modern country called Turkish Republic. Maybe a pronoun (Mild-Islamic) will be put behind the name later. Than the spirit in the minds of the founders of this beautiful republic will be totally lost.

Emin Colasan was the hardest writer to cope with in terms of AKP's mind and they took the most reliable action.

However our secular, democratic and peaceful country was established under a whole world's pressure and will definitely remake itself from the souls of god-blessed martyrs and veterans once more...

Answer 5

No more Hurriyet.

Answer 6

The owner of Hurriyet is Aydin Dogan and he wants to make deep relationships with government one day will come and Aydin Dogan will lose his ownings like his old opponent Cem Uzan.Shariah makes its way in Turkey.

Answer 7

The amazing and sad downfall of Turkey into the hands of hypocritical islamists (current government) has taken another victim. They slash and smash anyone who tries to wake the narcoleptic citizens and dares to criticise them. Emin Colasan, a prominent and honest journalist was fired because he did not sell his ideals like other journalists such as (Ertugrul O or Yasemin C). Censorship is the way of islamists not secularists. I will not call this alarming or appalling, it is simply another disaster on free and secular Turkish Republic. People who fought for Turkey's freedom 80 years ago I feel so very ashamed of what we have become. Turkey's adversaries what can I say rejoice!!

Answer 8

I was very skeptical about Hurriyet and especially Ertugrul Ozkok recently. He always found a way to support the government and agree with Mr. Erdogan and at times his articles sounded too good to be true. I do not want to sound like I am plotting a conspiracy theory but this looks like a very well-planned action to me. I hope these people who are using democracy to come into power will not destroy it  later on so that they can impose their fundamentalist Islamic beliefs on Turkish people. We should not forget that this was actually how it started taking a turn for the  worst in Iran. I will not buy Hurriyet anymore and  nobody should until we are given a logical and an honest explanation about why Colasan was fired.

Answer 9

No Stop,Lets Go On (Durmak yok yola devam)

This is election slogan of AKP.

Answer 10

For people who are expecting resignment of other writers, gotta say that, no body else will resign for sure. If you see Oktay Eksi's relevant article, you will see that, Mr. Colasan was not welcomed that much for most of the writers. The ones who are defending him, like Mr. Bekir Coskun, are doing that just because they are close frieds.

I KNOW that Mr. Colasan, accuses people just with gossips he heard. He does not investigate the issue at all. He does not care whether his accusations are true or not. There is a reason why I capitalised above letters. I faced it. Therefore, I am one of the individuals who knows true Colasan.

But to Turkish people, not the most relevant but the most interesting seems more correct. Mr. Colasan's success is bound to the fact that, in Turkey people are fans of conspiracy theories rather than thruth. People hear what they would like to hear and disregards the rest. And rather than acting like a journalist towards readers, Colasan acts like a politician to his voters.

But the timing was very wrong. Colasan should have been fired years ago, at the time while he was meddeling with Mr. Ozal, with his usual, unethical and arrogant style. Now, after 22 years, most of the people relates this act with governments pressure, which is very likely.

Anyways, Mr. Colasan does not belong to a newspaper who addresses to general public. He shall now work for one of the radical newspapers which share his style, such as Cumhuriyet with Hikmet Cetinkaya or Tercüman with Metin Ozkan. Newspapers with similar unethical non-investigative journalists.

Now, I know again, that most of his fans are reading my above words, making themselves sure that I am an AKP fan. You know what? I am not. I am one of those idiots who let his vote, captured by CHP, once again, due to lack of a secular, republican alternative leader and party.

Answer 11

Politics controls the media and it is the reason that they can buy out a journalist that are against them which should not be the case because the media is supposed to be the voice of the people.

Answer 12

Turkey is rolling down hill with 150 miles/hr...Soon there will be a huge economic crisis and everything will collapse again.Even though we dont hang people anymore bec of EU **** I am 100 percent sure this government will be hanged...I am waiting for the military action.Nobody wants military action as it will cost us another 20 years to recover but if nothing is done to protect our secular country we will go back 500 years and not recover ever.

Answer 13

I am responding from Australia.

This is a Bush style terrorist attack on press freedom. I remember the days when Bush attached Iraq... so called "free press" in America did not make any waves... turned a blind eye to the barbaric attack of Bush armies into a sovereign country... indirectly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women, children... all in the name of grabbing Iraqi oil and furthering the cause of American Christian Evangelists... Americans are living their last days in Iraq but when they leave; they will leave a terrible mess in their wake... a mess that can potentially explode into a wider Middle East carnage.... all thanks to Bush and his gang of mates.

Now, Emin Colasan has the guts to stand up against the dark forces in Turkiye.

But those forces, just like Bush, want an obliging press... The Turkish tyrants want the press to shut up. Unfortunately, the Turkish media have already fortfeited their duty to uphold objective reporting to a great extent.

The firing of Emin Colasan is another nail in the coffin for free press in Turkiye.

SHAME ON YOU HURRIYET>>>>>>>>>>You should change your name to OPPRESSION - NOT HURRIYET!!!!