Interview with Noam Chomsky on Racism in the US and Europe

It is typical of reporting Turkey, only so far as it relates to US policies. For example, in the 1990s when there were horrible atrocities being car- ried out in the south eastern Turkey, thousands of villages were de- stroyed, people became refugees, all the arms were coming from the US. The flow of arms increased. There was no reporting. The New York Times has a bureau in Ankara and quite a good correspondent there. There was nothing appeared about Turkish human rights violations. In 2003, something extremely interesting happened. The US wanted Tur- key to participate the invasion of Iraq and Turkish refused. The govern- ment did not pay attention to the US, but simply responded to the pop- ulation. 95 percept of the population was opposed. They were bitterly attacked here. At that point the press started to point Turkish human rights violations. Because Turkey did not follow the US orders. That is the way it works. That is reporting Turkey because it is not cooperating with the US coalition now