After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed his intention to introduce "judicial reform" bills again, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to demonstrate against the plan on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against the plan to "reform the judiciary", which the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to implement, for the 21st week in a row.
Yedioth Ahronoth (private) newspaper reported on its website that 80,000 people demonstrated on Kaplan Street in downtown Tel Aviv against the plan to reform the judiciary.
The newspaper indicated that thousands of others demonstrated in the cities of Raanana and Haifa (north), Kfar Saba (center), and other places in the country.
The newspaper said that the police closed a number of main streets near the demonstration sites throughout Israel.
As of 20:05 (GMT), the Israeli authorities have not issued any comment on the opposition demonstrations.
And last Wednesday, Netanyahu announced that the "judicial reform" bills would come back again after the Knesset approved Israel's budget.
The (official) broadcaster quoted Netanyahu as saying, "Changes in the judiciary will certainly return to the fore. We are in the midst of dealing with them, and we are trying to reach understandings with the opposition regarding them."
Netanyahu announced more than two months ago the suspension of "judicial reform" bills to allow room for reaching understandings with the opposition.
Since that time, talks have been taking place between the opposition and the government coalition under the auspices of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, without any signs of agreement appearing on the horizon.
The opposition says that these projects "aim at weakening the judiciary, especially the Israeli Supreme Court, and turning Israel into a dictatorship."
For more than 21 weeks, the opposition has been organizing unprecedented weekly protests across Israel to demand the suspension of "judicial reform" bills.
Turkish President Fahrettin Elton: Disinformation spreads like a plague in the world
The head of the communication department in the Turkish presidency, Fahrettin Altun, said that the rate of exposure of individuals to misleading information through social media is much higher in Turkey than in all other countries.
"Disinformation has become a reality not only in Turkey but in the world, and it is spreading all over the world like a plague," said Fahrettin Altun, head of the communication department at the Turkish presidency.
He added in a press interview : "We are facing a lot of misleading information... and it threatens democracies, social peace and the truth."
The Turkish official believes that the struggle for the truth is a "sacred struggle," noting that knowing the truth is an issue that would preserve the survival of society, social peace, individual well-being and democracies.
According to Altun, the exposure of individuals to disinformation through social media is much higher in Turkey than in all other countries.
"The reason behind this is the path that Turkey is taking and the overall strategic choice that it has made," he said.
He stressed that "disinformation is considered a form of interference in order to dissuade Turkey from this strategic choice."
And he added, "Although disinformation is a problem that we are facing intensely at the present time, we can see it happening in our past, in the contemporary and political Turkish history as well."
Altun pointed out that Turkey's political history is a history of coups and interference in politics and the democratic political sphere, and explained: "When you look at these interventions in detail, you will see fake news campaigns, a disinformation campaign, right before these interventions took place."
He concluded that "the truth" was one of the main pillars of the political struggle pursued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since the beginning of his political life.
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