Comments on: Islamophobia? http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/islamophobia_929/ Frederike Geerdink's weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: About a dead Turk and journalism | Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/islamophobia_929/comment-page-1/#comment-13292 About a dead Turk and journalism | Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:04:28 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=929#comment-13292 [...] Newspaper Zaman, religious and pro-government, takes every opportunity it gets to write about rising racism in Europe. That’s in itself okay, I mean, it is a problem and the topic needs to be written about. The thing is, they instantly loose every sense of balanced reporting as soon as a Muslim in Europe dies under suspicious circumstances. They immediately connect it to racism, whether that makes any sense or not. Other Turkish papers report about Ishan Gürz with headline’s like: ‘Turk killed by Dutch police’, so with quotation marks and not stated as facts, but what headline does English daily Today’s Zaman come up with? Turkish man killed under severe torture in Dutch police station. As if that is a fact. No, it’s not a coincidental mistake, it’s a policy. A dangerous policy. They did the same when Arzu Erbas was killed in Amsterdam, a case I wrote about here. [...] [...] Newspaper Zaman, religious and pro-government, takes every opportunity it gets to write about rising racism in Europe. That’s in itself okay, I mean, it is a problem and the topic needs to be written about. The thing is, they instantly loose every sense of balanced reporting as soon as a Muslim in Europe dies under suspicious circumstances. They immediately connect it to racism, whether that makes any sense or not. Other Turkish papers report about Ishan Gürz with headline’s like: ‘Turk killed by Dutch police’, so with quotation marks and not stated as facts, but what headline does English daily Today’s Zaman come up with? Turkish man killed under severe torture in Dutch police station. As if that is a fact. No, it’s not a coincidental mistake, it’s a policy. A dangerous policy. They did the same when Arzu Erbas was killed in Amsterdam, a case I wrote about here. [...]

]]> By: Fréderike Geerdink http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/islamophobia_929/comment-page-1/#comment-2214 Fréderike Geerdink Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:03:48 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=929#comment-2214 @MixMax, thanks for your reply. It's not the first time that TZ writes about islamophobia in Europe and leaves crucial information out. Some time ago, one of their reporters went on a trip to Holland and interviewed some youth that were very anti-Muslim and presented is as if it was the leading opinion in the Netherlands. Without mentioning which group it exactly was, without mentioning any other opinions. It paints a pictures that is just not true. Islamophobia in Europe is of course a topic that needs to be written about, but like I said, it needs to be done with nuance, with care. Leaving crucial information out, is biased & bad journalism, and it doesn't contribute. @MixMax, thanks for your reply. It’s not the first time that TZ writes about islamophobia in Europe and leaves crucial information out. Some time ago, one of their reporters went on a trip to Holland and interviewed some youth that were very anti-Muslim and presented is as if it was the leading opinion in the Netherlands. Without mentioning which group it exactly was, without mentioning any other opinions. It paints a pictures that is just not true. Islamophobia in Europe is of course a topic that needs to be written about, but like I said, it needs to be done with nuance, with care. Leaving crucial information out, is biased & bad journalism, and it doesn’t contribute.

]]> By: MixMax http://www.journalistinturkey.com/blogs/islamophobia_929/comment-page-1/#comment-2208 MixMax Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:33:41 +0000 http://www.journalistinturkey.com/?p=929#comment-2208 Having a head-scarfed woman (that was the first reason people thought that it is something to do with honor killing - pathetic), she was very successful in her business, by taking care for the children in her neighborhood... all that and suddenly someone, unknown jump at her in the middle of the day and stab her so brutally numerous times... all this is big news, any newspaper would take opportunity of it and it doesn't matter whether this newspaper is religious or secular, Dutch or Turkish, liberal or conservative, each one want to take chances to fame and glory. This is not helping the matter, it won't serve the country to have people together and the only thing this will do is to encourage the hatred that is growing among people living in the same country. Having a head-scarfed woman (that was the first reason people thought that it is something to do with honor killing – pathetic), she was very successful in her business, by taking care for the children in her neighborhood… all that and suddenly someone, unknown jump at her in the middle of the day and stab her so brutally numerous times… all this is big news, any newspaper would take opportunity of it and it doesn’t matter whether this newspaper is religious or secular, Dutch or Turkish, liberal or conservative, each one want to take chances to fame and glory.

This is not helping the matter, it won’t serve the country to have people together and the only thing this will do is to encourage the hatred that is growing among people living in the same country.

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