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As justice in Turkey sinks lower… A university student to 11 years in poshu scarf case #CihanKirmizigul EFD Rights Watch
TweetShare via email Turkish student sentenced to 11 years in poshu scarf case from Hurriyet Daily News A Turkish court sentenced university student Cihan Kırmızıgül to 11 years in jail.... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Eight Soldiers ‘Suicide’ per Month, 1 Million People Said “No!” to Aliağa therma power, Declining Women’s Rights…
TweetShare via emailEight Soldiers ‘Suicide’ per Month from Bianet :: English Minister of National Defense İsmet Yılmaz answered the parliamentary question of CHP: “934 military people committed to suicide in... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Medya Association protests the shut down of Özgür Gündem and a Human Rights in Turkey roundups
TweetShare via email My dear readers, i have been so busy with some academic and personal stuff that I could not produce my usual roundups. Now, I am working on it... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: 4 jailed journalists released, Sivas massacre case dropped due to statute of limitations, Şafak Pavey as “woman of courage”
TweetShare via emailişte mutluluğun resmi! ahmet, yonca ve mina şık… twitter.com/altinsaray/sta… — Cem Altınsaray (@altinsaray) March 12, 2012 İşte fotoğraf budur. Nedim Şener’in ilk işi kızını okula götürmek oldu… twitter.com/erenguler/stat…... Read more
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Erkan quoted here: “Discarding Reform, Turkey Uses the Law to Repress [there is also the Turkish version]
TweetShare via emailAttacks on the Press in 2011: Turkey’s Legal Problem Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, buoyed by a landslide election victory, has led an attack on press freedom.... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Mizgin Mujde Arslan and Ozay Sahin, also victims of KCK trial…
TweetShare via email Mizgin Mujde Arslan and Ozay Sahin have been detained on Monday, February 13th Dear Friends, We regret to inform that our friends and colleagues Mizgin Mujde Arslan... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: “Ragip Zarakolu, human rights symbol in modern Turkey”; new KCK arrests today…
TweetShare via emailRagip Zarakolu, human rights symbol in modern Turkey, Bulent Gokay from open Democracy News Analysis – by Bulent Gokay Turkey will become a real global power only when... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Academic Ersanlı and Writer Zarakolu – 100 Days in Jail and more…
TweetShare via email Academic Ersanlı and Writer Zarakolu – 100 Days in Jail from Bianet :: English “We want Justice and Freedom on the 100th day of arrest” demanded the... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: No arrest for Armenian soldier’s killer, but Officer promoted despite claims in Dink murder…
TweetShare via email No arrest for Armenian soldier’s killer from Hurriyet Daily News A military court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır ruled Jan. 30 to continue without arrest the... Read more
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Erkan quoted in The Media Line piece: “Turkey’s Jails Filling Up With Journalists”
TweetShare via emailTURKEY’S JAILS FILLING UP WITH JOURNALISTS Kurdish reporter’s arrest over weekend is the latest in wave of detentions Aziz Tekin, a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat,... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: Not surprisingly “Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index
TweetShare via email Turkey Loses Ground again in World Press Freedom Index Turkey fell back ten places to number 148 in the 2011-2012 World Press Freedom Index. According to the... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: as Agos daily and Musa Anter books under censorship’s spot, Human Rights Watch warns Turkey
TweetShare via email Agos daily website, Armenian community’s paper in Turkey, was deemed not good for kids and was filtered by the request of Turkish Ministry of Education. This has been... Read more
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A Guardian piece to understand how many journalists jailed in Turkey… ‘Arrested Journal’ 2nd issue released… EFD Rights Watch
TweetShare via email Trying to get at the truth of Turkey’s jailed journalists from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Roy Greenslade Turkey is regarded as having a dire press... Read more
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Çalışan Gazeteciler Günü….ve genişleyen kadrosuyla Tutuklu Gazete’nin yeni sayısı…
TweetShare via email [View the story "Çalışan Gazeteciler Günü....ve Tutuklu Gazete'nin yeni sayısı..." on Storify] TweetShare via... Read more
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EFD Rights Watch: NYT states “Turkey’s Glow Dims”
TweetShare via email Turkey’s Glow Dims as Government Limits Free Speech from NYT > Turkey by By DAN BILEFSKY and SEBNEM ARSU While Washington and Europe praise Turkey as the... Read more
