by admin | Feb 1, 2015 | international, media freedom, Turkey
It is now over a year since the Odatv journalists had faced their accuser in court (the last hearing was on 12 December 2013). The case, due to be held on 1 April 2014 was postponed. Although reforms to the courts resulted in the case being held under the new set up,...
by admin | Dec 19, 2014 | media freedom, Turkey, Uncategorized
It’s now becoming clear the wide extent of the attack on freedom of expression resulting from the Zaman arrests recently reported. A number of scriptwriters of a soap opera were also banged up! In fact it was more than scriptwriters, those arrested on Sunday also...
by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | international, media freedom, Turkey
The government-orchestrated crackdown on independent critical media outlets in Turkey took a turn for the worse yesterday (14 December 2014) with dawn raids on Turkey’s largest newspaper Zaman and popular national TV network Samanyolu TV that led to the...
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...
