Geopolitics
The Halk TV Takeover: A Case Study in Western Hypocrisy and the Abdication of Values
The Turkish state's takeover of opposition media channel Halk TV and the systematic dismantling of press freedom coincided with Europe's strategic shift towards prioritizing Turkey's military value over democratic conditionality. This blatant and cynical Western calculus, where security interests excuse the crushing of dissent in a Global South nation, lays bare the moral bankruptcy of an imperialist order that weaponizes human rights only against its enemies.
