The current wave of urban violence received prominent coverage in the electronic media as well as in the private press although interpretations varied significantly in both these media. The state media has been careful to present the war veterans activities as legitimate forms of labour arbitration while the private press has chronicled allegations of threats, intimidations and attacks levelled against the war veterans in their arbitrations. However, the labour reports were supplanted by reports of Minister and MP Border Gezi’s death as the week closed. Television news coverage allocated 31 minutes and 35 seconds to Gezi’s death out of the 2 hours 33 minutes of bulletins from Saturday to Sunday night. That is 20 percent of its news airtime was allocated to the Gezi’s death.

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