by admin | Oct 2, 2014 | censorship, media freedom, Turkey
Although there are still 23 journalists and media workers behind bars in Turkey, the lowest number for many years, journalists and other media activists are still being targeted by the authorities, the steering committee of the European Federation of Journalists heard...
by admin | Jun 5, 2014 | Europe, media freedom, Turkey, unions
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has criticized a new wave of violence against journalists in Turkey covering the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests. Journalists covering the Gezi protests’ anniversary in Istanbul and Ankara have again been beaten,...
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 | Dec 15, 2013 | media freedom, Turkey, unions
The last two defendants held in the Odatv trial were released at the end of the hearing in Istanbul’s 16th High Criminal Court on Thursday 12 December. (Odatv is an online news portal known for its fierce criticism of government policies.)However, both defendants,...
by admin | Sep 13, 2013 | Campaigns, international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
Justice and press freedom in Turkey suffered further setbacks on 11 September, when an Istanbul court decided that the case against journalist and writer Profesor Yalçin Kücük should be adjourned until 12 December. Kücük, one of the defendants in the Ergenekon trial,...
by admin | Dec 30, 2012 | international, media freedom, Turkey, unions
Soner Yalcin, international journalist and owner of Odatv news website, was released from jail on 27 December. His release came after the 15th hearing of the Odatv trial at the Judgement Palace in Istanbul. However, he can’t leave Turkey, and he will have to report...
