When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan slams the Turkish media, which is quite often, the world listens. Therefore, there is no reason to be surprised about either Bahman Hosseinpour, Iran’s ambassador to Ankara, blaming the Turkish media for the rocky state of relations with Turkey, or the silence of Turkey’s ruling party in return.
When Erdogan portrays the Turkish media as an obstacle to his success in domestic and foreign affairs, it prompts others to see the Turkish media under an unfavorable light.