Paper will win over a hatred-guided rock

Celal Korkut is a veteran journalist of Hürriyet. He has a golden heart. He is an appreciated figure at the paper.

Celal Korkut, who always does his job in a professional way and who loves sharing his experience with the younger generations, has shared on instagram a photograph that he took.

There is a pencil and a piece of a huge rock that was thrown by "those who came to visit" our newspaper in the night between Sunday and Monday.

The journalists or those who are familiar with photography will know better.

In certain situations, a familiar object is shown next to the object photographed so that those who take a look better perceive the dimension of the object matter.

Most of the time, the object can be a lighter, a cigarette package or a pencil.

While photographing the piece of rock together with the pencil, not only was he showing the dimension of the thrown rock (or let's say, one of the thrown rocks), but he was also giving a message.

Pencil vs. rock...

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It was one of the rocks thrown by some people holding sticks and led by Abdurrahim Boynukal?n, the head of Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch who became a parliamentarian in the June 7 elections.

One of the rocks that I don't believe and I don't want to believe will be adored by anyone a part of the pro-government accounts, dubbed "AK Trolls" by the opposition, and the owners of those accounts employed as "journalists," who are organizing lynching campaigns in their corners at newspapers and TV programs.

After I thanked friends who have called me after the incident, I just said "Celal Korkut has summed up our situation in one photograph."

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