press freedom

The Peace Process in Turkey goes like this: PM criticizes media/threatenes media freedom, slams opposition leaders, Opposition insults back and labels him as traitor…

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MEMO FROM DIYARBAKIR; Turkey Renews Focus on Ending Its Long Conflict With Kurds from NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO; Sebnem Arsu contributed reporting from Diyarbakir, and Ceylan Yeginsu from Istanbul. One of the region?s most intractable conflicts may be nearing a close, thanks to the determination of the prime minister, yet ending violence … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Turkish Army denies claims of German troops? mistreatment…mistreatment is for locals… Website Campaigns For Turkey’s Foreign Inmates..

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Turkish Army denies claims of German troops? mistreatment from Hurriyet Daily News The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has denied claims that German troops sent to operate Psychiatrist Reacts Ministry’s Sex Segregation from Bianet :: English Reminding the youth ministry’s recent order to separate girls and boys during overnight train ride to a youth camp, psychiatrist … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Al Jazeera declares Turkey as the ‘World’s biggest prison’ for media… BDP?s Black Sea Campaign stopped due to security reasons…

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Turkey: ‘World’s biggest prison’ for media from AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Reporter rights groups accuse Ankara of jailing more journalists than any other country in the world last year. Violent protests lead to cancelation of BDP?s Black Sea tour from Hurriyet Daily News Violent protests staged in the Black Sea provinces of Sinop and … Read more

The Guardian: “Journalism under attack across the globe imperils press freedom… A Journalism roundup…

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Journalism under attack across the globe imperils press freedom from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Roy Greenslade An unprecedented rise in the number of journalists killed and imprisoned in the past year, coupled with restrictive legislation and state censorship, is jeopardising independent reporting in many countries, according to a report issued today. From the … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: “Turkey to Implement New Judicial Reforms…

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Turkey to Implement New Judicial Reforms from Bianet :: English ntvmsnbc said Turkish government is soon to conclude its efforts to draft new judicial reforms, publicly known as 4th Judicial Package. Judicial package in pipeline: Justice minister from Hurriyet Daily News The fourth judicial package, which aims to remedy structural problems in the Turkish judicial. … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: “Turkey on 154th in press index, Maalouf’s Samarkand new target, Turkey Found Guilty in a Kurdish case…

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Turkey on 154th in press index from Hurriyet Daily News Turkey slipped a further six places, dropping to 154th of 179 countries… Maalouf’s ‘Samarkand’ investigated by Turkish education board from Hurriyet Daily News French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf?s historical novel Samarkand.. Turkey Found Guilty For Convicting Campaigns in Kurdish from Bianet :: English The European Court … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: The collapse of Turkish Judiciary: Trial of Pınar Selek…

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Pınar Selek Issused a Life Sentence after 15 Year Trial from Global Voices Online by Baran Mavzer Pınar Selek, a Strasbourg-based sociologist and a writer, previously accused of bombing the Istanbul Spice Bazaar in 1998, was sentenced to life in prison in Turkey. After after being acquitted three times during her almost 15 year-long trial, … Read more

Turkey’s glorious Human Rights Record 2012 by Bianet…Army suicides… a roundup…

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Turkey’s Human Rights Record 2012 – Part I from Bianet :: English On the occasion of World Human Rights Day, Turkey’s two main human rights organizations released their annual torture reports, complaining that impunity on several torture cases encouraged the ongoing human tragedy in Turkey. Turkey’s Human Rights Record 2012 – Part II from Bianet … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Tear gas strike at hunger strike protestors… Pressure on journalists still on the agenda…

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A woman is helped by demonstrators as Turkish riot police fire water cannon and tear gas during a Kurdish demonstration in support of a widespread hunger strike by Kurdish prisoners, on November 4, 2012 in Istanbul (AFP Photo / Bulent Kilic) VIA Turkey: Turkish Police Use Tear-Gas Against Protesting Mothers from Global Voices Online by … Read more

CPJ’s answers to critics on Turkey report… Hunger strikes at a critical state… EFD Rights Watch…

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Questions about CPJ’s Turkey report? Here, our answers. – Blog – Committee to Protect Journalists Questions about CPJ’s Turkey report? Here, our answers. By Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director Last week’s release of CPJ’s report on Turkey’s press freedom crisis generated widespread domestic media coverage and sparked a robust public debate. The response from Turkish journalists … Read more

Bayram gift from CPJ to Turkish government: “Turkey?s Press Freedom Crisis”

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Turkey accused of pursuing campaign of intimidation against media from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Simon Tisdall Two independent reports have found evidence of a pattern of harassment against writers and broadcasters Ankara is pursuing a systematic campaign of intimidation against the Turkish media, including the prosecution and jailing of writers, and demands for … Read more

After all, like Fazel Hawramy says “Turkey would rather jail journalists than address the Kurdish question. A Turkish politics roundup

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Turkey would rather jail journalists than address the Kurdish question | Fazel Hawramy from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Fazel Hawramy The state has too long shaped the Kurdish issue as one of terrorism. About 100 journalists are now in prison ? it must end Turkey has put 44 Kurdish journalists on trial this … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: 44 Kurdish journalists in KCK trial…

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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

Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam) derledi: “Taksim’de Özgür Basın Emekçileri için Eylem

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EFD Rights Watch: Deputy PM’s belated April Fools Day joke: “The Turkish media is free enough

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The Turkish media is free enough, Arınç from Hurriyet Daily News Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has rebuffed criticisms that Turkey has problems in the area of freedom of the press, accusing those who say so of lying. We now have the chance to turn all schools into religious schools, says AKP deputy from Hurriyet Daily News … Read more