Examining the settings of the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, this paper traces the relationship between state power, agency and media. On 15 July 2016, reports emerged through social networking sites and other mainstream media of armoured military tanks blocking the entrances to the Bosphorus and Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridges in Istanbul. Appearing via FaceTime on CNN Türk, President Erdoğan called people onto the streets to confront the occupying forces. Following the foiled coup attempt, officials praised the public for using communication technology to topple the coup plotters. I juxtapose the different settings where the coup unfolded to argue these events are symbolic phenomena, underscoring how the imaginary of ‘national unity’ is mediated to (re)affirm state power.
Review of: What’s the Point of News? A Study in Ethical Journalism, T. Harcup (2020)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 158 pp.,
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Draft genome sequences of
Escherichia coli
and
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
strains collected from clinical infections were used to determine the prevalence of newly emerging antibiotic resistance genes in Maine. Comparisons between cefepime-resistant and -susceptible
E. coli
strains and imipenem-resistant and -susceptible
P. aeruginosa
strains are being conducted.
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