Things that Erdoğan's advisers may be hesitant to say

On April 13, just days from the constitutional referendum in Turkey, the media attack by the "yes" front reached a new peak.

Rallies by President Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım followed one after another, and all were broadcast live by almost all national channels - either voluntarily or because private companies feel it's a good idea to do so. The chain broadcasts started at 2:10 p.m. in the Aegean province of Kütayha with Yıldırım, whose speech lasted 20 minutes. That was followed by Erdoğan from the Black Sea town of Ordu at 2:46 p.m. (just 10 minutes after Yıldırım) and lasted for 44 minutes. Then it was Erdoğan again in the neighboring Black Sea town of Giresun. Starting at 4:30 p.m., Erdoğan spoke in a broadcast that continued for nearly 38 minutes. As soon as Erdoğan's speech was over, the TV channels started to give Yıldırım's speech in the western town of Bilecik, which started at 5:30 p.m. and lasted for 26 minutes.

In summary, a total of 2 hours and 8 minutes on almost all national and many local TV channels in Turkey were occupied by live "yes" campaigning.
 
In the evening hours, Erdoğan was on the pro-government TV channel TGRT and Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who has lent support to Erdoğan's proposal to consolidate all executive power in the presidency, was on Habertürk, of course carefully arranged not to overshadow each other, despite the usual competition rules among different media companies.

It is practically impossible for any news channel to interrupt an address by either the president or the PM in order to report on the rally of a politician from the "no" front, but the opposite is not only possible but frequently real. The time allocated for the "yes"...

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