by admin | Dec 5, 2017 | media freedom, Press
“Just when journalists thought legal threats to press freedom in Britain couldn’t get any worse, along comes another menacing piece of legislation. After the Investigatory Powers Act, correctly nicknamed the snoopers’ charter, and the law commission’s proposal for a...
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 | Feb 26, 2017 | Campaigns, media freedom, Turkey
On 10 February I wrote in my last blog that: “Next Tuesday I am travelling to Istanbul to see the curtain come down on one of the most farcical trials I have witnessed in my years as an observer at trials of journalists in Turkey.” Owing to an unscheduled trip to...
by admin | Nov 10, 2016 | Europe, international, media freedom, Turkey
In my blog of 25 September ‘Defending journalism in Turkey’ I described the interview I gave with Ugur Güç, TGS president, on an evening news programme on IMC TV. We discussed the increasing number of prosecutions against journalists and during the...
by admin | Jul 19, 2016 | media freedom, Turkey
The failure of the coup launched by a faction of the military on 15 July has resulted in a massive purge by the Erdogan government, while the reckless military adventurism has weakened, possibly fatally, what was left of the country’s democratic framework. In...
