Turkish Court Convicts 13 From Newspaper on Terrorism Charges NYT > Turkey by By CARLOTTA GALL The defendants, sentenced to two to seven years in prison, remain free pending their appeals, but the verdict keeps the pressure on journalists who are critical of the government. Sentence of 81 Years in Prison in Cumhuriyet Trial, Akın Atalaya Released Bianet … Read more
We are happy to share the report primarily based on the workshop on “Education Policies & Practices that Promote Integration and Refugee Children’s Right to Education” held by European Liberal Forum in Istanbul with the support of Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in 2017. The participants included academics working on the migration and education; representatives of local, … Read more
We are pleased to share with you the report entitled “Services for Children and Family in Istanbul District Municipalities”, prepared by Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) in collaboration with the Istanbul Studies Center of Kadir Has University and with support of Bernard van Leer Foundation. You can access the report here. http://tesev.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/istanbul95.rapor_1.pdf
The 2018 Turkey Regress Report MARC PIERINI The European Commission is due to publish its next progress report on Turkey in April 2018. This standard procedure is meant to outline how candidate countries have advanced in aligning with the EU’s political and technical criteria for accession and to chart their paths forward. Yet, in Turkey’s … Read more
A new report on the role of community media for refugees and migrants has been published The Council of Europe publication entitled “Spaces of Inclusion – An explorative study on needs of refugees and migrants in the domain of media communication and on responses by community media” has been prepared by experts of the COMMIT … Read more
Katılımcı Demokrasi İçin Doğru Ve Güvenilir Bilgi: Dijitalleşen Medya İçin Denge Denetleme Perspektifinden Öneriler Şubat 2018 Medya, sağlıklı bir demokrasinin işleyebilmesi için şart olan denge denetleme sisteminin de, yasama, yürütme, yargı, sivil toplum ve yerel yönetimler ile birlikte, ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır. Denge ve Denetleme Ağı’nın kuruluşundan beri savunduğu katılımcı demokrasi için medyanın öncelikli ve ana misyonu, … Read more
Bir Arada Başardık: “Türkiye için bir hayal, fikir ve ortaklık haritası” 10 Ocak 2018 Bir hayalle yola çıktık, ülkenin, en geniş sivil toplum katılım çalışmasını tamamladık. Bugün elimizde, herkesin okurken heyecan duyacağı bir rapor tutuyoruz: “Türkiye için bir hayal, fikir ve ortaklık haritası” Biz, “farklı düşünüyoruz, bir arada çözüyoruz” diyerek bu ülkede hiç denenmeyeni başarmış … Read more
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression Committee to Protect Journalists For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers–Turkey, China, and Egypt–into improving … Read more
This website lists all the “solidarity academies” set up by peace academics most of whom were fired to continue academic solidarity and to set up courses outside the university system…
The full report is here *********** Thirty countries use ‘armies of opinion shapers’ to manipulate democracy – report World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Alex Hern Governments in Venezuela, the Philippines, Turkey and elsewhere use social media to influence elections, drive agendas and counter critics, says report The governments of 30 countries around the globe are using … Read more
Awarding of the 2017 Raif Badawi Award to Ahmet Şık Berlin, 2 October 2017 – Turkish investigative journalist Ahmet Şık is this year’s winner of the Raif Badawi Award for courageous journalists. Şık writes for “Cumhuriyet”, a leading Turkish daily newspaper critical of the government, as well as other publications; his book “The Imam’s Army”, on the life and … Read more
How People Approach Facts and Information Pew Internet Rss Feed: Reports by Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech (Hero Images/Getty Images)When people consider engaging with facts and information any number of factors come into play. How interested are they in the subject? How much do they trust the sources of information that relate to the subject? … Read more
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Terrible… TURKEY RANKED 99 OUT OF 113 COUNTRIES ON RULE OF LAW Turkey Falls Eight Positions in 2016 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index Turkey report here All the research here: WJP Rule of Law Index 2016 worldjusticeproject.org The 2016 edition expands coverage to 113 countries and jurisdictions (from 102 in 2015), relying on … Read more
Here is the report: INTERNATIONAL REFERENDUM OBSERVATION MISSION Republic of Turkey – Constitutional Referendum, 16 April 2017 here is link to @osce_odihr mission statement happening live now in case anyone missed it earlier https://t.co/VlioOzZK7F #TurkeyReferendum — Arzu Geybulla (@arzugeybulla) April 17, 2017 Unlevel playing field in Turkey's constitutional referendum: preliminary conclusions by international observers … Read more