turkish press

Uğur Mumcu commemorated

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Turkey doesn’t lack fallen journalists. Murderers of  Uğur Mumcu still not found…and more pieces below for Hrant Dink and other human rights related issues… Family members, journalists and members of Turkey’s pro-secular groups hold carnations and posters of Turkey’s founder Kemal Ataturk, on the memorial of Ugur Mumcu, Turkey’s best known investigative journalist who was … Read more

A website in tribute to murdered Journalists in Turkey; two more websites censored in the mean time…

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A Turkey based gaming site Sanalika banned now. Grou.ps is also banned. Toplumsal Bellek [Social Memory]  is a website dedicated to murdered journalists. here is the link for English version. Gerçekler ortaya çıksın, kim incinecekse incinsin!

Leman magazine issues its 1000th issue

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Popular Turkish comics magazine Leman issues its 1000th issue. A cover page collection of Leman can be found here.

Bilgi?yi Bitiren Adam (Melek Çetin’den)

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[Konuyla ilgili haberler ve Twitter tepkileri burada güncelleniyor-admin] Şimdi hep beraber 20 kere skandal diyoruz çünkü 20?sini Cüneyt Özdemir zaten söyledi. Kendisine  göre yapılması gereken, böylesine bıçaksırtı bir proje yapılmadan önce rektöre kadar herkese haber verilmesiydi. Bilgi Üniversitesi Görsel İletişim tasarımı bölümüne bitirme projesi olarak çekilen öğrenci filmini gazeteci skandalcılığı kokan iki yazıyla ?değerlendiren? Cüneyt … Read more

Mediacat magazine chooses best newspaper, news magazine and humor magazine covers

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MÜYAP now kills Fizy.com/ BIA Media Monitoring Report released

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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

Fehmi Koru may be the first victim of Cablegate in Turkey. And another Wikileaks roundup

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Well-known Turkish columnist Fehmi Koru allegedly got in touch with the American diplomat Mr. Edelman to help firing İbrahim Karagülle, Yeni Şafak’s world news columnist. Mr. Koru today refuses the allegations and claims that Edelman’s man swore at him instead. However, Mr. Koru lost his position at Yeni Şafak after the emergence of allegations. Mr. … Read more

Students now beaten at ODTÜ. A human rights roundup.

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It looks like AKP power consolidates as center right and old patterns of malpractices emerge. Erdoğan?s trial by criticism from Today’s Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Turkish Pre by Mehmet Barlas Just as novelist Halide Edip Adıver wrote a book titled ?Türk?ün Ateşle İmtihanı? (Turkish trial by fire) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip … Read more

In the mean time, Büyükada Orphanage goes back to real owners….

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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

[Turkish] Başbakan Erdoğan Cablegate’e meydan okur- Wikileaks depremi. Türkçe haberler/yorumlar (3)

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Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan chairs the annual meeting of the High Military Council in Ankara November 30, 2010.? Read more »REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY – Tags: POLITICS) Sarkozy: Türkiye’nin 70 milyon müslümanla Avrupa’ya girmesine asla izin veremeyiz! from EurActiv.com.tr AB ve Türkiye Wikileaks’in yeni belgesi Sarkozy’nin Türkiye karşıtlığını bir kez daha gözler önüne seriyor. Fransa … Read more

“Candaş medya”. A new partisan media emerges

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Pro-AKP press has been labelled as “partisan media” by particularly Doğan Media Group press but as Star daily claims those who labelled others as partisan show signs of partisan coverage themselves towards CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu…

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