imamın ordusu

Turkish model at work: glorious Turkish state cannot find a vehicle to bring Ahmet Şık to his own hearing while a compulsory filter program is on the agenda for advanced web censorship…

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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

“Dokunan Yanar” Digital resistance to Turkish Judiciary. Ahmet Şık’s banned book out in the web…

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I was out on Thursday afternoon on some personal issues and while I was offline, I basically missed all the initial excitement: Some people uploaded the banned book entitled as “Dokunan Yanar” [You are burned if you touch] which was previously entitled as “İmamın Ordusu [İmam’s Army]. The book focuses on allegations of Fethullah Gülen … Read more

So, Orhan Pamuk is fined for insulting Turkishness…

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Orhan Pamuk to pay compensation for his words, court decides by  Milliyet Nobel Prize recipient Orhan Pamuk will pay 6,000 liras in total compensation to five people for writing in 2005, ‘The Turks have killed 30,000 Kurds and 1 million Armenians in this land.’ Legal Landscape of 2010 Dominated by Anti-Terror Law According to data … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Israr ve dayatma

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Bahar yorgunluğunun yanında giderek ağırlaşan siyasetin yorgunluğu sırtımızda, beynimizde.  Hrant?ı öldüren tetikçilerin bugün yapılacak 17. duruşması bile kâfi. İçeride ve dışarıdaki gelişmeler yetmiyormuş gibi bir de siyasetçilerin insanı açıkça enayi yerine koyan beyanları.   İşte ?iç ferahlatıcı? bir potpuri daha. Nükleer manzara Japonya?daki felâketten herkes ders çıkarmaya çalışıyor. Japonya?nın tüm enerji altyapısını gözden geçireceği haberleri geliyor. … Read more

More than 44 thousand Facebook users in Turkey against ban for Ahmet Şık’s book

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More than 44 thousand users join a group in support for Ahmet Şık’s unpublished book: “Ahmet Şık’ın Kitabı Bende de Var” [I, too, have Ahmet Şık’s book]. This is in fact to turn oneself in since the court decree declares that anyone who has the copy is supporting the Ergenekon Case. A scandal brews… While … Read more

Some newspapers in Turkey rebel against pressure on a book that is not even published yet

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Everyday the state of free speech in Turkey goes for worse… Yesterday’s police ambushes are in the first page of many newspaper. On the other hand, pro-government dailies such as Zaman, Yeni Şafak, Star did not think this was a major issue…   Main Turkish opposition harshly criticizes raid against unpublished book from Hurriyet Dailynews … Read more

Police ambushes many sites in Istanbul to find the copies of unpublished book of Ahmet Şık…

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It started this morning with the publishing house, Ithaki Yayınevi, which is expected to publish Ahmet Şık’s book on Fethullan Gülen movement’s involvement with the Turkish police force. The book is entitled as İmamın Ordusu [Imam’s Army]. According to Twitter accounts, policemen are searching copies at Radikal daily now and the found copies in hard … Read more