How a YouTuber became the go-to news source in Turkey
It was total silence, the kind never seen in Turkey except during military coups. When Turkey’s second most powerful man, Berat Albayrak, resigned as the minister of treasury and finance in November, not a sniff of the news was to be found on any major Turkish TV channels for 24 hours. The stations' coverage kept rolling, of course. Regularly scheduled programming was uninterrupted, even on channels known for their editorial lines critical of the government. But the bombshell resignation letter posted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son-in-law on Instagram went ignored. The silence...
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