Six journalists targeted by Turkish police
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,...
Turkish Government criticised
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...
A disaster waiting to happen
No one can tell the political fallout that will occur in the wake of the dreadful mining disaster in Soma in western Turkey. Anger at the scale of the disaster was expressed across Turkey and to the remarks made by prime minister Erdogan on Wednesday when he commented...