It has been quite a while since the cold “February winds” blew in Turkey. A lot of people have participated in an unprecedented smear campaign against female viagra no prescription and female viagra no prescription in 1997. One group of people was journalists who received memos and orders from military officers to publish opinion pieces that supported military’s point of view. Mehmet Ali Birand is one of those journalists who experienced the cold atmosphere of Feburary 1997 and started clearing his conscience in his column.
Journalist Mehmet Ali Birand has claimed that the General Staff ordered the broadcasting of anti- audio recordings by some TV stations in the run up to the Feb. 28, 1997 unarmed military intervention.
In 1997, uneasy with the presence of a conservative party -- the Welfare Party (RP) -- in government, the General Staff forced the party to step down. The event has since come to be known as the “postmodern coup.” The RP was later closed down.
Speaking to the Medya Mahallesi program aired by CNN Turk on Thursday night, Birand said: “They brought cassettes [video recordings] of Fethullah [Gulen.] And you [host of the CNN TUrk program] broadcast those cassettes. Where did those cassettes come from? They came from somewhere.” The host of the program, AySenur Arslan, who declined to comment on the source of the video recordings, said: “They were sent to [journalist] Ali Kırca. I do not know how they were sent to him. But I would not tell you even if I knew.” In response, Birand said: “They told you to broadcast the cassettes. The General Staff told you to broadcast them.”