4th year Commemoration photos here. State officials’ involvement in murder allegations abound. Dink Family Demand New Investigation Bianet They submitted a petition to the prosecution and requested to investigate 28 officers from the Police and Gendarmerie in Trabzon and Istanbul. No One Is Hrant Dink: 96 Years of Solitude and 4 Years of the Same … Read more
via I woke up to learn that popular music service Fizy.com is banned due to copyright issues. MÜYAP, a copyright violation hunter, is behind it. News in Turkish here. a discussion in Friendfeed here. http://twitter.com/tinca/statuses/19736397254492160 http://twitter.com/SenolEfendi/statuses/19731607174774784 Saturday Mothers to raise issue of missing persons again Today’s Zaman The Saturday Mothers decided to accelerate their efforts … Read more
photo credit Attention: Humanity being lost at Turkey-Greece border by RECEP KORKUT from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Op-Ed by RECEP KORKUT It is midnight on the border between Turkey and Greece. Special teams on rotation at the border are hypersensitive and on the look out for enemies they pursue with … Read more
Sociologist guilty in 1998 Spice Bazaar blast, top Turkish court rules from Hurriyet Dailynews The Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled that the 1998 explosion in Istanbul’s Spice Bazaar was caused by a bomb placed there by sociologist Pınar Selek. NTV interview with Ms Selek in Turkish here. Öğrencilere verilen ceza için ben de başbakanı … Read more
via Letter “Q” Constitutes Element of Crime from Bianet :: English Sociologist Beşikçi and Layer Şimşek are accused of “spreading propaganda for the PKK”. In the second hearing of the case, the prosecutor saw an element of crime in the use of the letter “q”, which is not part of the Turkish but of the … Read more
Here is the link for the report…. The state of journalism in Turkey is miserable. Journalists themselves are part of the problem but the state, the government, the judiciary make it worse… Turkey in Free Fall from Bianet :: English Turkey ranges in 138th position among 178 countries reviewed for the World Press Freedom Index … Read more
It is just like that. In another round of never ending headscarf issue, Higher Education Council (YÖK) sent university presidents a memo to actually lift the ban. But of course it will take more time to legally change the situation… It is only after the miserable defeat of Kemalist forces in referendum, this shameful ban … Read more
Report of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media on Turkey and Internet Censorship (PDF file)
Prepared by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, Associate Professor, Human Rights Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University.