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To give this a bit of context, Turkey has cracked down hard on protesters from their secular majority population and has forbade the media from showing it. CNN in Turkey is showing cooking shows right now instead of the massive civil unrest brought on by people who just want their country back.
A game show host doing the job that the reporters won't.
I put the past tense in the post because he will likely be killed by this regime as they are trying desperately to keep a lid on this in hopes of stopping a potential regime change.
Wow: Turkish game show host defies government censorship by making every answer protest-related
In which the Turkish Guy Smiley shows CNN how it’s done:
Hat tip, Ace, who compiles some of the best questions and answers from the game show host with “B**** of Iron.”
Twitter went wild among Turkish users as the show aired.
Let’s keep host Ali Ihsan Varol in our thoughts and prayers. He told a Turkish paper that his situation is “somewhat complicated.”
The last two questions of the show:
The video is obviously not in English, but you can follow along with the translation a bit, here, and there’s no missing the undercurrent of emotion as Varol barely veils his intention and the contestant and audience start to realize what’s going on. I can imagine Turkish citizens standing up and cheering at their screens.
A game show host doing the job that the reporters won't.
I put the past tense in the post because he will likely be killed by this regime as they are trying desperately to keep a lid on this in hopes of stopping a potential regime change.
Wow: Turkish game show host defies government censorship by making every answer protest-related
In which the Turkish Guy Smiley shows CNN how it’s done:
Perhaps one of the most striking attempts to pierce and criticize the veil of censorship on Turkish media came from a Quiz show host whose “Guess the Word” program airs. As citizens of Turkey watched with their jaws on the floor (and many standing up and clapping in front of their TV sets according to my social media feeds), he asked his quests to guess words such as “resistance,” “censorship,” twitter”, “tear gas”, and more. He finished his 70 questions with questions whose answers were “resign” and apologize.
The next day, he was not allowed to air live and his fate remains uncertain.
The next day, he was not allowed to air live and his fate remains uncertain.
1- A journey undertaken to see, to have fun: GEZI –name of the park that is at the center of the protests.
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4- An activity geared towards trying to change or improve a situation: A PROTEST [EYLEM]
5- A coming together around a set of ideas without being divided: UNITY
6- The metaphor for understanding what the facts are: TO WAKE UP
7- The people Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said should be “the most important representatives of human dignity and qualities, defense of nation and freedom of speeech”:YOUTH
8- The ability to make decisions according to correct, meaningful interpretation: COMMON SENSE
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12-Democratic solution box: THE BALLOT BOX
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14-The person that turns the right into not right and the protester into terrorist: PROVOCATEUR
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22-To resist, to not give up: RESISTANCE
23-To find an event or an application as unfair, and not accept it and resist it: PROTEST
24-To be able to decide without undue pressure from outside: FREEDOM
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4- An activity geared towards trying to change or improve a situation: A PROTEST [EYLEM]
5- A coming together around a set of ideas without being divided: UNITY
6- The metaphor for understanding what the facts are: TO WAKE UP
7- The people Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said should be “the most important representatives of human dignity and qualities, defense of nation and freedom of speeech”:YOUTH
8- The ability to make decisions according to correct, meaningful interpretation: COMMON SENSE
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12-Democratic solution box: THE BALLOT BOX
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14-The person that turns the right into not right and the protester into terrorist: PROVOCATEUR
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22-To resist, to not give up: RESISTANCE
23-To find an event or an application as unfair, and not accept it and resist it: PROTEST
24-To be able to decide without undue pressure from outside: FREEDOM
Let’s keep host Ali Ihsan Varol in our thoughts and prayers. He told a Turkish paper that his situation is “somewhat complicated.”
The last two questions of the show:
To voluntarily give up a position: Resign
The act that makes a person bigger by asking to be forgiven for wrong actions: Apologize
The act that makes a person bigger by asking to be forgiven for wrong actions: Apologize
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