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2 more features on Media Freedom in Turkey…

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FEATURE-Jailed journalists write for freedom in Turkey Reuters Many of those are for articles about the alleged anti-government plots of the shadowy “Ergenekon” network since the investigation was launched four years ago. Some 2000 cases have been opened against reporters. Well known journalist Ahmet Slk was…. Mission Journal: Media under growing pressure in Turkey CPJ … Read more

Towards elections: Massive AKP rally in Istanbul, PM Erdoğan directly targeting a columnist and the Economist magazine…

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Around one million citizens may have attended AKP’s Istanbul election rally. Here are some photos from Hürriyet. Boats carrying supporters of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) sail through the Bosphorus in Istanbul June 4, 2011. Turkey will hold parliamentary elections on June 12. REUTERS/Murad Sezer Turkish PM targets Economist magazine, journalist Nuray Mert … Read more

Full frontal attack by the Guardian: ‘Turkey is not a free country’

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Turkish highschool students run during celebrations marking May Day in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Activists flooded Turkey’s largest city Istanbul Sunday and marked international workers’ day around the world with marches demanding more jobs, better working conditions and higher wages. About 200,000 workers gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim Square in the largest May Day … Read more

Kollama…Bir Ergenekon masalı

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(…) Son birkaç aydır yaşadıklarımızı alt alta dizip ?Of dizi bile olmaz bundan, o kadar uçuk, o kadar gerçeküstü? diye söyleniyorduk. Yapılmışı var. Dizi olarak. Samanyolu TV?de her cuma. * ?Kollama? adlı bu dizi, ?bizi kollayanların hikayesini? anlatıyor. Nasıl bir hikaye derseniz, şöyle tanımlanmış: ?Birileri Türkiye?nin kara kutusu sayılacak bir kitabı çalmıştır. Türkiye?nin tarihine yön … Read more

"'Privileged partnership' is an insult"

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EurActiv.com – Turkey’s chief negotiator: ‘Privileged partnership’ is an insult | EU – European Information on Enlargement

Posters are seen at a small demonstration organized by France's ...

Posters are seen at a small demonstration organized by France’s far-right National Front party to protest the lighting of the Eiffel Tower in the red and white colours of Turkey’s flag as part of the “Season of Turkey” events in Paris October 8, 2009. Poster at left reads, “Shame on the Partnership of France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe”. Poster at right reads, “With the National Front Party, Defend our National Colours” with the Eiffel Tower in the Blue, White, Red colours of France’s flag. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

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So did you do it?

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Ergenekon prosecutors asked the Office of Chief of Staff what they knew of coup attempts between 2000-2009:) News in Turkish. here and here.

According to an Hürriyet news, Turkish Armed Forces began to use its new slogan in army premises: “Strong Army, Strong Turkey”. This slogan has been debated recently. Pro-army people loved it, others questioned what that really means. Some suggested a change in places. Strong Turkey will provide a strong army not the other way. Not to mention the fact that Strong Army nations mostly remind dictatorships whose societies are indeed weak…

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Güler Zere (and more judicial news)

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Güler Zere
Güler Zere

Last evening, in Istiklal Street, Taksim, I happened to witness around a thousand demonstrators protesting Güler Zere’s situation. She is a detainee in Adana prison ill with fourth stage cancer and if she is not released she may die.  A web report claims that Ministry of Justice has just started the release process; let’s hope for the best.

“Stop Sexual Harassment in Police and Gendarmerie”

Bianet – Emine Özcan – ?Aug 31, 2009?

Güler Zere is a detainee in Adana prison ill with fourth stage cancer. According to a medical report, Zere is in danger of dying and the hospital’s prison

Unfortunately, not good news follow:

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Meet Sevil Atasoy: "An Agent Professor" according to some…

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Sevil Atasoy

Sevil Atasoy

Ergenekon trial yet uncovers another dirty relationship in “Turkish deep state.”  Ergun Babahan named her as an “agent professor” who seemed to have worked for military intelligence and filed scandalous reports when she was the director of Forensic Science Institute.

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