Esra Doğramacı@esrad

Turkey: Social Media & Protests

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So, does social media matter?

Lets do the maths

Population: 77 million

Online: 35 million*

Facebook: 30 million?**

Twitter: 6 million** = 8%

*http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/turkey/ **http://www.statista.com/statistics/284503/turkey-social-network-penetration/

Who’s tweeting?87% = 5.2 million in 3 cities

2015 November general election returns

The answer

= Not really

This has something to do with

trust

But this is where it matters

Source: http://img.rt.com/files/news/32/f4/70/00/syrian-refugees-hunger-strike-.si.jpg

Source: http://gdb.voanews.com/E591985F-53C6-4E03-B816-72AFF42A699A_cx0_cy14_cw0_mw1024_s_n_r1.jpg