AKP’s social media wars
Has the Justice and Development Party (AKP) enlisted “social raiders” to take on its critics in the social media?
"You're a traitor!"
"Only a Zionist agent can write such things."
"Son of a bitch …"
This was some of the feedback I received on Twitter after I wrote a column on my newspaper's website on Oct. 19 to comment on the release of two Turkish pilots who were kidnapped in Lebanon on Aug. 9. To summarize, I criticized the Turkish government for presenting the release as a diplomatic victory, although Ankara was embarrassingly sidelined during the negotiations.
