Kurdish women protest against the trial of 44 journalists in Istanbul. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images Dozens of Kurdish journalists face terrorism charges in Turkey from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Constanze Letsch, Luke Harding Human rights groups say country’s biggest ever media trial is attempt to intimidate press The biggest media trial in … Read more
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In the last couple of days: 6 columnists have been fired [link in Turkish] from Akşam daily. 1 very popular critical columnist at Radikal daily, Yıldırım Türker, has been censored and decided to quit. Another, Tarhan Erdem, rumored to be censored, too… Corruption has different angles. It might be political- and mostly political right now- … Read more
Eight Soldiers ‘Suicide’ per Month from Bianet :: English Minister of National Defense İsmet Yılmaz answered the parliamentary question of CHP: ?934 military people committed to suicide in last 10 years? 1 Million People from İzmir Platform held a public demonstration against the thermal power plants yesterday and many parties, unions and non-governmental organizations participated the … Read more