[mrtksn]

Doctors are all over Instagram, Twitter and so on. There would have been doctors telling things. The medical professionals in Turkey are well paid, they have very strong jobs security, they have influential societies that are quite hostile to the government.

They are overworked and are under the risk of antisocial patients but Silencing a doctor in Turkey is not as easy as silencing a journo. They are well educated, well paid and well organized. It is very unlikely that a doctor would participate in a cover-up in fear of politicians.

[lm28469]

They put journalists and opponents in jail, what do you think would happen to them ? Who in his right mind would defend such a country ? I can't even begin to understand the logic behind that, sure it's not the lowest of the low like DPRK but comparing it to EU or the US ... I'm speechless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arrested_journalists_i...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/27/turkey-crackdown-social-...

https://ahvalnews.com/germany-turkey/turkey-detains-german-n...

https://cpj.org/reports/2019/12/journalists-jailed-china-tur...

[mrtksn]

Doctors are not a journalist. Journalists in Turkey are low paid with limited employment options and with %90 of the media being held by Erdogan affiliated businessmen it is easy to purge them.

That's not the situation with the doctors. The doctors in Turkey are picked from Crème de la crème among the students, educated in some of the most prestigious institutions and paid very well. They have money, they have options, they have connections.

Doctors are not journalists, these lists are about journalists and it is correct that Erdogan destroyed the press freedom in Turkey but Doctors don't work for the TV channels and the newspaper and they have access to social media.

[lm28469]

I don't think the salary effects who goes in jail or not. The only thing it could change is that people making a good living would be less likely to take risks and lose everything than people already at the bottom.

There isn't much to debate, Turkey is universally seen as a dictatorship and has a track record of doing very shady and questionable things (which are not even close to being acceptable in the EU or US). Feel free to believe whatever you want but you haven't provided any resources besides your own idea of what Turkey is and this view isn't backed by anyone besides Erdoğan supporters.

[mrtksn]

You don't go to jail just like that in Turkey. This is not DPRK.

They need to accuse you of something and have a trail. All can be unfair and it is often unfair but you don't disappear, you can fight in the process and it catches a lot of public attention. Being a doctor means that the public loves you, trusts you, you have the money and the connections to fight.

If there was a cover-up, I am sure that doctors would have been talking because there are many doctors openly critical to the government and they even have a society for that. This is not Iran, China, DPRK or whatever country where you can just disappear.

[lm28469]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkey-sentences-doctors-to-pr...

You should probably just stop digging, information is available on internet for free and every single one of your claims can be refuted in a few seconds. They do send people to jail over the most ridiculous things, even doctors.

[mrtksn]

An expectation of the rule doesn't make it a rule. If you dig deeper I am sure you will stumble upon to doctors who went to jail for other political activities too. You don't understand the nuances here, you don't get public support if you say something against the nationalistic stance, if you dig you will find that doctors involved in the kurdish politics can also be jailed.

Whatever. Believe whatever you want, go ahead believe that I died from COVID-19 but the government is covering up by writing replies to you from my account.

Things are fine in Turkey(regarding the COVID-19 situation), Erdogan being a dictator doesn't change a thing about that, journalist in jail don't automatically count as COVID-19 deaths.