by admin | May 31, 2014 | censorship, media freedom, Turkey
On 30 May I contacted a journalist on the Turkish newspaper Zaman offering a comment on the decision of the Financial Times to throw out the paper’s journalist from reporting a speech being given in the paper’s London office by Turkey’s finance minster Mehmet Şimşek...
by admin | May 17, 2014 | Turkey, unions
No one can tell the political fallout that will occur in the wake of the dreadful mining disaster in Soma in western Turkey. Anger at the scale of the disaster was expressed across Turkey and to the remarks made by prime minister Erdogan on Wednesday when he commented...
by admin | Apr 3, 2014 | international, Israel, Vanunu, whistle blowing
In August, it was reported that Avigdor Feldman, Mordechai’s lawyer, had finally managed to lodge an appeal against Mordechai’s continuing restrictions and the surveillance he was subjected to. However, it was not until after a couple of postponements...
by admin | Mar 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdoğan (pictured left) is the clear winner in the local elections held yesterday. With about 98% of votes counted by early this morning, his party, the AKP, in power since 2002, had 45.6% of the vote whiled the opposition CHP trailed...
by admin | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s been a hectic 24 hours in Turkey with the welcome news of the release of four journalists, Tuncay Özkan, Merdan Yanardağ, Yalçın Küçük (see my blog of 15 December 2013) and Hikmet Çiçek who were accused of committing terrorist acts in the Ergenekon case. Upon his...
