The issues of press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey have for several years attracted a great deal of attention and provoked extensive debate both in Turkey and in other Western countries. Dozens of journalists critical of the government have been jailed, and hefty fines have been levied against media outlets seen as opposing … Read more
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Trying to get at the truth of Turkey’s jailed journalists from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Roy Greenslade Turkey is regarded as having a dire press freedom record. But the facts – even the numbers – are disputed. First, the numbers. According to the Turkish Journalists’ Union and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), … Read more
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Atalay (C), the head of the BİK, poses with represantatives of minority papers. AA photo Minority newspapers happy with 250,000 TL cash grant from Hürriyet Daily News Representatives of minority-run newspapers in Turkey have said they are overjoyed at a 250,000-Turkish Lira grant from the country?s Press Bulletin Authority, or BİK. or Turkish school books … 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
Fransız kaldım: Medya ve masumiyet karinesi Kadına yönelik şiddet en alçak suçlardan biridir. Bir kız, bir kardeş, bir eş olsun, yada bir sevgili, sokaktaki yabancı, oteldeki görevli, herhangi bir kadın olursa olsun, o kadını dövmek, ona tecavüz etmek, onu öldürmek affedilmez bir suçtur. Bunu bir insan, bir kadın olarak bütün sesim ve nefesimle haykırıyorum. Fakat … Read more
It looks like Türkiye daily maybe the only paper whose owner, Enver Ören, did not change for 41 years. It now celebrates its 41th birthday.News in Turkish here. This paper belongs to a smaller Islamic community. In the mean time, a major and older daily Milliyet and Vatan were sold to Karacan Family. Karacans were … Read more
His last piece was not published and he took it to Hürriyet Daily News to print. He narrates how he began to write at Today’s Zaman. His case may be read as another sign of Islamic front’s insincerity. Now that we have enough power, we can leave our liberal allies behind… A dilemma Font … Read more
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
Taraf daily announced today that they began to cooperate with Wikileaks and Turkey related Cablegate material will be published soon. Today’s issue also has an exclusive interview with Julian Assange. Taraf is definitely the best paper in Turkey to cooperate with. Very good decision for Wikileaks… http://twitter.com/tanselparlak/status/47903928171511808 Yeni Star'ı çok beğendim. Bu sabah Star ve … Read more
It is very hard to believe that our colleague and friend Ahmet Şık is an Ergenekon member. He devoted his life to struggle for human rights issues in Turkey as a journalist and he was in Nokta magazine team whose publications started the Ergenekon case in the first place. Many people suspect his unabating anti-Gulenism … Read more
WE DEMAND ANOTHER MEDIA Why hasn?t media changed at all, when everything else is transforming? Why is it forcing upon us the same-old bankrupt discourse one generation after the other: full of insults; executions; tirades; harassment; and a modernist feudalism? Why is it not democratizing? Where does the national media, chronically falling behind the rest … Read more
Genellike futbol ve basketbol ya da sportif organizasyonlar üzerine yazmayı tercih ediyordum ancak son zamanlarda medyada iyice artan çirkinlikler neticesinde bu yazıyı yazmaya karar verdim. Gün ülkenin iletişim fakültelerini, medya çalışanlarını, medyaya kaynak sağlayanları elekten geçirme günüdür. Artık yozlaşma sınırları zorlamaktadır. Sadece yaşayan insanlar değil, bu dünyadan ayrılanların dahi özel hayatları zan altına sokulmaktadır. Son … Read more