The silencing of the media
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 interview presenter...
After all this time – it’s IMPRESS
The Press Recognition Panel (PRP), established by Parliament following the Leveson report published in November 2012, has approved IMPRESS's application for recognition under the Royal Charter. Meeting on Tuesday in west London |(opposite the BBC) the Panel considered...
More trials pile up
The next day (Wednesday 21 September) we arrived at the Caglayan Court of Justice in Istanbul which was hearing 5 different prosecution cases against journalists. We were originally told that there would only be one! Again we were with the IFJ/EFJ affiliates TGS...