Journalists held a protest near the courthouse. The banner read ‘We will touch even if we get burned.’ DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GÜREL Journalist Şık Absent at Court – Transportation Mishap at Prison Bianet On Thursday (14 April) the Kadıköy (Istanbul) 2 nd Criminal Court of First Instance held a hearing of the trial … Read more
As Tunisian migrants begin to arrive, Italy fears ‘epic emergency’ from FP Passport by Joshua Keating More than 4,000 Tunisian migrants have arrived on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in since the fall of longtime strongman Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. The perils of ‘stability,’ Europe edition from FP Passport by Cameron Abadi EU walks diplomatic tightrope on Tunisia migrants … Read more
Egemen Bağış, state minister and Turkey’s chief EU negotiator. AA photo This is another sign of how Mr. Bağış did rise so fast politically. He is a loyal follower of his party leader in aggressive rhetorics. In Auschwitz, Turkey minister accuses EU of ‘racism’ from Yahoo news The EU risks being besieged by a racist … Read more
The EU in 2011 from Open Europe blog by Open Europe blog team For those of you who can’t wait to see what 2011 has in store for European politics, Open Europe has published a briefing looking at the issues facing the EU – and most importantly the eurozone – next year. Read it here. Nationalism: the European bogey-man? … Read more
Sarkozy to journalists: ‘See you tomorrow, paedophile friends’ from FP Pasaport by Joshua Keating Sarko’s temper flares again in response to a reporter’s question about allegations that he took kickbacks from a weapons deal with Pakistan to fund his presidential campaign: Access to scientific data: European Court of Human Rights judgement from Ideas on Europe … Read more
So we also learn that BDP and government officials would meet. But it is now cancelled due to the bombing… 10 People Killed by Roadside Bomb in the South-East from Bianet :: English 10 minibus passengers died in an explosion in the south-eastern province of Hakkari, four people got wounded. The Kurdish KCK blamed the … Read more
European court finds Turkey guilty in Dink case from Hurriyet Dailynews The European Court of Human Rights has found the Turkish state guilty of failing to protect the life and freedom of expression of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Park on Istanbul’s islands named in slain journalist Dink’s honor from Hurriyet Dailynews Local authorities on … Read more
Article | Turkey Joins Europe, Electrically Speaking by M.A.M Brussels, 2010-06-07 Trial parallel operation of Turkish TSO TEIAS planned to start in September 2010. The island operation tests of the Turkish TSO TEIAS (Türkiye Elektrik İletim A.Ş.) were carried out successfully from 11 to 24 January 2010 in high load conditions, and from 22 March … Read more
I was actually in Trabzon, when the mass happened. The city was a little bit tense. MHP activists made a big fuss in town I was told. Still a good sign emerged in Sümela Monastery: Turkey’s peace with her citizens. In the mean time, Turkish State’s defense at ECHR is a scandal. At least, President … Read more
Belgium takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months today, Thursday. But the country is deeply divided politically and has only a provisional government led by former Premier Yves Leterne, who was voted out of office in June. The press, however, is confident of the strength of the EU and believes the current Belgian regionalism is a model for Europe.
EU finance ministers gathered in Brussels yesterday to formalise a timetable for the Greek government to reduce its budget deficit from 12.7% to 3% by 2012.
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Press release issued by the Registrar
Chamber judgment1
Akdas v. Turkey (no 41056/04)
SEIZURE OF THE NOVEL Les ONZE MILLE verges BY Guillaume Apollinaire and conviction of the publisher hindered public access to a work belonging to the european literary heritage
Unanimously:
Violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression)
of the European Convention on Human Rights
Principal facts
The applicant, Mr Rahmi Akdaş, was born in 1958 and lives in Bandırma. He is a publisher and in 1999 published the Turkish translation of the erotic novel Les onze mille verges by the French writer Guillaume Apollinaire (?The Eleven Thousand Rods? ? On Bir Bin Kırbaç in Turkish), which contains graphic descriptions of scenes of sexual intercourse, with various practices such as sadomasochism or vampirism………………………..
nice photos and strike diary in this blog. Censorship Costs Turkey 43,000 Euro at ECHR from Bianet :: English The European Court of Human Rights sentenced Turkey to a ? 36,000 compensation fine for closing five newspapers because of their focus on the Kurdish question. Aziz Özer, who had been silenced for describing prison operations … Read more
Someone should advise the government about the nature of web. In fact, the ruling party invests more on the web campaigns than all other ones. But in case of governmentality issues related to web, I haven’t seen any innovative ideas so far… Despite AKP’s great attempts on democratization, nothing happens on the Web scene. Unfortunately, it is quiet conservative when it comes to Web.
There have recently been two news about what Turkish authorities are up to: to create a Google rival and to start an email surveillance from the birth (all news below). While they play with these idiotic plans, a group of Turkish internet users had a creative idea and decided to take to YouTube ban to ECHR. Congratulations! I will try to get news about those users soon.