Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu submitted a parliamentary question on Wednesday, demanding to know the reason behind why the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), which is funded by the Justice and Development (AK Party) government, used the hashtag edenbulur (you reap what you sow) when discussing the police operation against the media during their morning program on Monday, Today’s Zaman reports.

The deputy demanded the answers to the following questions: “Is it true that TRT used the hashtag edenbulur on Twitter when discussing the operation on the media that took place on Dec. 14?” and “And if so, who are the officials responsible for starting this hashtag?”

Tanrıkulu also asked “Would this [using this hashtag] not show that the TRT is biased? Who is the official responsible for producing biased media on TRT?”

The deputy further asked, “Is it not a violation of the law and of human rights for TRT to announce that the suspects of the Dec. 14 media operation are guilty before they have been tried in a court?”

The news program “Morning on 1,” broadcast by TRT1 and hosted by Selver Gözüaçık, led criticisms of those detained in the investigation -- before the completion of their interrogations -- including Zaman Editor-in-Chief Ekrem Dumanlı and other media employees who were taken into custody on Sunday.

While what the hashtags were referring to remains ambiguous, it is clear that they are targeting Hizmet-led media, which was the target of police raids that took journalists and other media workers into custody on charges of defaming an al-Qaeda-affiliated group known as Tahşiyeciler (Annotators).

“The government's television station used the hashtag edenbulur. TRT is not Turkish Radio and Television but Tayyip Radio and Television,” Twitter user Osman Türkoğlu wrote in reaction to the trending hashtag, saying it illustrated the hand that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has over Turkish media.

Another Twitter user wrote, “Those who campaign against us with our money [because TRT is government funded] can go to hell edenbulur freepresscannotbesilenced.”