Erkan bugün Radikal’de ve T24’te…

Radikal: Bir tıkla Uganda kurtulur mu? ………. ?AKTİVİSTELERİN DRAMA GÜCÜ? Yalnızca 30 dakikalık bir videoyu izleyip 10 dolarlık bağış yaparak, postayla evinize gönderilen posterleri duvarınıza asmakla, sosyal aktivist olunur mu? Bilim insanları bu konuya temkinli yaklaşıyor. İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi?nde çalışan Yrd. Doç. Dr. Erkan Saka, ?İkinci video bu tip kar amacı gütmeyen kurumların yaptığı standart videolar … Read more

Erkan quoted here: “Discarding Reform, Turkey Uses the Law to Repress [there is also the Turkish version]

Attacks 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. (AP/Boris Grdanoski)   With the aid of anachronistic legislation and a rigid judiciary, Turkish officials and politicians have curbed free expression by subjecting journalists to endless court … Read more

Erkan quoted in The Media Line piece: “Turkey?s Jails Filling Up With Journalists”

TURKEY?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, had the misfortune of becoming a news item himself over the weekend when he became the 105th journalist in Turkey to be put behind bars………. ………Erkan Saka, … Read more

Erkan quoted in El Mundo for a piece on internet freedom but…

…I see that El Mundo is also banned in Turkey…  I have no idea why it is banned…update: it is banned due to broadcasting the infamous Baykal sex video… here is the link to the original piece that I cannot access thru my laptop – it is time change settings, I guess-