Daily Mail hits new low with Erdogan insults

ANKARA

While Turks are still trying to recover from the shock of last week's failed coup that killed 246 people, British newspaper Daily Mail is using the opportunity to insult the Turkish president and his family.

In an editorial published July 18, Daily Mail tried to stir up the already depleted discussions about the presidential complex in Ankara and went on to publish unverified claims about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family.

The daily also insulted Erdogan by calling him a “tyrant”, ignoring the fact that he got elected with 52 percent votes during Turkey's presidential elections in 2014.

It also overlooked Turkish people's struggle for survival and devotion to protect the country's democracy and its elected president during the coup attempt.

The newspaper did not thoroughly explain what happened during the coup night and the Turkish state's measures taken afterwards, which shows the western media's biased reporting once again.

The daily did not mention anything from U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen, who leads the Fetullah terrorist organization and is believed to be the mastermind behind the failed coup attempt.

Turkish government officials, in every media appearance, have reiterated how the attempted coup was organized by Gulen followers, who is accused of a long-running campaign to overthrow the government through infiltration of the Turkish state, particularly the military, police, and judiciary, forming the so-called parallel state.

The deadly coup attempt began late on July 15 when rogue elements of the Turkish military tried to overthrow the country's democratically-elected government, killing 246 people and injuring more than 2,100 others.

Turkey's government said last Friday’s attempted coup was organized by followers of U.S.-based preacher Fetullah Gulen, who is accused of a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through infiltrating Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary, forming what is commonly known as a parallel state.

The Western media, after the July 15 failed coup attempt by Fetullah terrorist organization, with many articles, has painted the government's measures of suspending FETO-linked civil servants and bureaucrats in public institutions as if these measures could be more dangerous than the failed coup that claimed hundreds of lives.