by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey
Hamza Yalçin (see blog dated 20 August 2017) was released on 28 September following a decision by Spain’s National High Court. “We are very pleased for our colleague, whose release we have been requesting since 3 August,” said European Federation of Journalists...
by admin | Aug 20, 2017 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey
I have recently received an email from a relative of NUJ adopted journalist Müyesser Yildiz, one of the journalists charged, imprisoned, released and subsequently acquitted on 12 April (see blog ‘At last the OdaTV13 are acquitted’ dated 15 April 2017). The...
by admin | Apr 18, 2017 | Campaigns, international, Turkey
It was a narrow victory and one which will not please President Erdogan ,who was hoping for a decisive one. Instead he won by a whisker with an estimated 51.4% of the vote, despite controlling the media and conducting the ‘Yes’ campaign under a state of...
by admin | Apr 15, 2017 | Campaigns, international, Turkey
After a 6 year ordeal an Istanbul court on 12 April ordered the acquittal of 13 suspects, including journalists and writers, charged with membership of the Ergenekon organisation in the OdaTV case. Among those acquitted is journalist Muyesser Yildiz who was adopted in...
by admin | Jan 21, 2017 | Campaigns, international, Turkey
The weekend before the SPOT (Solidarity with the People of Turkey) delegation arrived in Istanbul, the city was in the grip of freezing temperatures and the heaviest snow-falls for 20 years with over 2 feet (65 cm) of snow paralysing the city. A few days later when we...
by admin | Jan 1, 2017 | Campaigns, international, Turkey
The IFJ/EFJ, English Pen and other trade unions and press freedom organisations have called for the immediate release of leading investigative journalist Ahmet Sik, who was taken into custody in Istanbul on 29 December. Following his detention Ahmet Şık has now been...
