Presidential palace should be vacated over election results, Turkish architects say President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 1,150-room mega-palace and its residents should immediately be evicted, an architects’ NGO has said in a statement CNN’s Amanpour interviews ‘the man who took on Erdoğan’ CNN’s Christian Amanpour conducted a live interview with HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on June 8, following … Read more
Turkey votes in election that could bolster president’s powers World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk w Poll seen as referendum on whether to endow Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with powers that would significantly change Turkish democracy Only one vote cast in Turkey’s southeastern village Only one person has cast a vote for the parliamentary election in the Yolveren village … Read more
Erdoğan’s lawyer demands aggravated life sentence for Turkish journalist over news story President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint against a Turkish newspaper and its editor over a critical news report, asking him to be jailed for life. The move came hours after Erdoğan said the journalist would pay a “heavy price.” 400 intellectuals show … Read more
BIA MEDIA MONITORING 2014: Media’s 3 Years: A Summary With Graphics Bianet :: English According to BIA Media Monitoring Report 2014, 22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 in prison. While the number of jailed journalists took a dive, the number of detentions, censorship and layoffs soared. Here is what happened in terms … Read more
Yavuz Bey burada da yayınlanan Twitter görüşmesi notlarıma da değindiği yazısında hükümetin şark kurnazlığını yazmış… Bu arada dün akşam Can Dündar’ın Canlı Gastesi’ne de uğradım. O da burada. Yavuz Baydar Twitter’a yapılan şark kurnazlığını yazdı Yazarımız Yavuz Baydar Twitter Başkan yardımcısı Colin Crowell’ın İstanbul’da bazı akademisyenlerle yaptığı görüşmenin perde arkasıyla ilgili yazısını köşesine taşıdı. İŞTE … Read more
Can Dündar dismissed from daily Milliyet for critical Gezi stance Renowned columnist Can Dündar has been dismissed from Milliyet, adding a new casualty to the list of journalists who left their media outlets in the aftermath of the Gezi unrest Minorities in Turkey tagged by ?race codes,? official document reveals An official document has revealed … Read more
It was NTV news with Can Dündar. My sister recorded the session here. Stating the obvious that social media had a central role in organizing the demonstrations. Since conventional media was under the control of the veteran authoritarian regime, there could not be any other media. And social media is harder to control and there … Read more