Many imprisoned journalists in Turkey contributed to a paper that is distributed today. I heard that with the help of Birgün, Evrensel and Cumhuriyet dailies, 42 thousand copies were distributed today…
World’s Oldest Terrorist from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White Photo from Radikal Lalihan Akbay, 102, faces a criminal investigation for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization”. She attended a mevlud (a commemorative religious ceremony where the Quran is read) in Tatvan that someone had organized for her son, Mehmet Rauf Akbay, a member of … Read more
A Turkish band, REDD, put the models of imprisoned journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener on the stage recently. photo source. Strasbourg, 12 July 2011 CommDH(2011)25 Original version REPORT by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Following his visit to Turkey, from 27 to 29 April 2011 Freedom of expression … Read more
Country of No: No Laziness or Adventurism from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White The Crime? Directing Turkish People to Laziness and Adventurism. The punishment: a $92,000 fine. In effect, cease publication of the humor magazine, Harakiri. From Hurriyet (click here): The humor magazine Harakiri has been forced to shut down after being slapped with a … Read more
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign. The appeal came in a report called ?Media and justice in Turkey ? mistrust and repression? after recent fact-finding visits by the worldwide media freedom organisation to investigate the hounding and prosecution of … Read more
Azadiya Welat Newspaper Banned – Again Azadiya Welat, the only nation-wide newspaper in Turkey publishing in Kurdish, has been banned for the duration of 15 days. This is the ninth publication ban for the daily. Its printing house in Diyarbakır was searched by the police. BİA Media Monitoring Report 2011 First Quarter – Full … Read more
Click here to view the PDF document by Open Society Foundation… ********************** Is Turkey going cold on EU membership? by Open Europe blog team As Europe limps along economically and struggles to speak with a single voice on? well almost anything, and at a time when the EU’s two flagship projects – free movement and … Read more
Wilders backs Dutch minority government from European Voice – RSS – News & analysis Talks begin to form a minority liberal-conservative administration with the informal backing of the anti-immigrant party of Geert Wilders. MAIN FOCUS: The Netherlands pulls out of Afghanistan | 02/08/2010 from euro|topics On Sunday, the Netherlands became the first Nato member state … Read more