Do you think AK will be able to clean enough house in this direction? Without losing the relative moderation that’s its chance for eventual EU membership?

Doug M.

Ergenekon, Pamuk, Dink. Πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα υπόθεση που δεν έπαιξε σχεδόν καθόλου στα ΜΜΕ….

And your last sentence is maybe as good a reason as any as to why so little coverage beyond pro forma wire notices. That and the clampdown from official Turkish sources.

Once you get close to terms like “deep state” and groups like the Grey Wolves, you quickly get to machinations that are, for want of a better word, Byzantine. Plus the whole looking-glass quality of things dealing with spies and double agents. The reporters have probably all read their LeCarre and stared into the abyss, and are not at all sure about what is staring back. Plus the chilling effect of Dink’s assassination. Who wants to risk a murky death for the sake of a complicated dispatch that no one will understand because the editors have to leave half the copy on the cutting room floor?