Editing Yeni Şafak (section)

===Disinformation during Gezi Protests===
''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> newspaper was a primary source of disinformation during </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">2013–14 protests in Turkey. According to a report published by </span>''Hrant Dink Foundation''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> was the primary newspaper generating hate speech against Gezi protestors.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 4 </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> claimed that protestors who took refuge in </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Dolmabahçe Mosque during police attempts to quell civil unrest had consumed alcohol inside the mosque.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> PM </span>[http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan]<span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> said that they would release security camera footage of proving this had occurred. However, the imam</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> of Dolmabahçe Mosque denied the paper's allegations and no footage was released to the public.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> Later, the imam (who is a state employee of the mosque) was transferred to a different city.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">The paper also claimed a headscarved woman was by attacked by a gang of shirtless protestors near Dolmabahce Mosque at a tram station on June 1, 2013. On February 14, 2014, several months after the end of the protests, security camera footage showed that there had been no attack on a woman wearing a </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">headscarf by protesters on that date. The woman and Prime Minister Erdoğan had claimed in press conferences and political rallies that protesters had attacked her and her baby.</span>

''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> also claimed that Gezi protestors were planning to burn the streets on the holy </span><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">Islamic day of Isra and Mi'raj. On the same day, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published a list of Turkish advertising agencies it claimed had organized the protests.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 6, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> claimed that the Zello mobile app, which was used by protestors to communicate during the protests, was delivered to them by a source in Houston</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> and that protestors were taking orders from that source.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 10, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> claimed that a theatre play called "Mi Minor", allegedly supported by an agency in the United Kingdom</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">, had held rehearsals for a "revolution" in Turkey for months.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On June 24, during one of the public forums in Istanbul </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">which was televised live on Halk TV, a protestor said that maybe they should wear police uniforms to protest police brutality. Pro-AKP media sources such as </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> claimed that Halk TV was planning a provocation by telling protestors to wear police uniforms and make false-flag attacks.</span>

<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;">On July 14 </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> published an article, called "The Horrible Istanbul Plan of the Gezi Protestors", on their website that claimed that Gezi protestors were conspiring to undermine the government by wasting water from the reservoirs supplying Istanbul.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> After the article became a source of mocking nationwide, </span>''Yeni Şafak''<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.4px;"> removed the article from their web site.</span>