by admin | Jan 22, 2018 | Campaigns, international, Turkey
As some 200 people assembled in London on Saturday, 20 January at the conference organised by Solidarity with the People of Turkey (SPOT), Turkish war planes launched air strikes on Afrin, one of the three Kurdish cantons in Northern Syria. It marked the launch of a...
by admin | Jan 15, 2018 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey
Turkey’s justice system was plunged into confusion last Thursday after two criminal courts defied an order by the country’s highest court to release two jailed journalists. Last Thursday the constitutional court ruled that the pre-trial detention of Mehmet...
by admin | Jan 8, 2018 | nuj
Chris was a long standing colleague and his death at the end of last October came as a great shock. I sent the following appreciation of his life to the editor of The Journalist (the NUJ magazine) in early January for possible publication in the next issue of our...
