Koza İpek Holding appeals appointment of trustees
The lawyer representing Akın İpek, the CEO of Koza İpek Holding, filed a notice of appeal on Tuesday against a court decision to appoint trustees to the holding's 22 companies which include the TV...
View ArticleEconomic recovery incompatible with democracy deterioration
Joost Lagendijk What to expect after the stunning Justice and Development Party (AKP) win on Sunday? Because in the past President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has never shown any magnanimity after an...
View ArticleTurkey does not deserve a setback
John Whyte* On Oct. 26, police forces in Turkey raided the offices of media company İpek Media Group, closing it down. This followed the jailing of newspaper editors and threats to another broadcaster,...
View ArticleCihan names Moscow rep as new manager
Leading Turkish news agency Cihan has announced its new general manager as Faruk Akkan, former head of the agency's Moscow bureau, a statement said on Wednesday. Cihan's former head Abdulhamit Bilici...
View ArticleAccess to newly established Özgür Bugün daily website blocked
Access to the Özgür Bugün (Free Bugün) website, which was launched after trustees were appointed to the Bugün daily's administration in a controversial decision last week, was blocked early on...
View ArticleEU warns AK Party gov’t over restrictions on media freedom
The European Union's enlargement commissioner has voiced a sharp warning to Turkish authorities to respect media freedom, stating the intimidation of journalists will jeopardize the country's...
View ArticleWell-known sociologist says Gülen’s name on terrorist list ’alarming’
The chairman of the philosophy department at Texas Tech University, prominent sociologist Mark Webb, has said that the branding of Fethullah Gülen as a terrorist, is a “very alarming development.”...
View ArticleTurkish school in Romania moves to new building
Spectrum Turkish School in Yas city of Romania moved to its new building on Tuesday with a ceremony. Turkish schools which have been operating in Romania for 21 years continue to develop. The school...
View Article’Don’t bargain over media freedom’
Yavuz Baydar I was a keynote speaker at the SpeakUp! forum at the EU headquarters. Below follows what I, in excerpts, told the audience about the state of journalism in Turkey. After two years, here we...
View ArticleKoza İpek lawyers challenge appointment of trustees to holding
Lawyers representing Koza İpek Holding on Thursday petitioned the Ankara 5th Penal Court of Peace against the court's decision to appoint a panel of trustees to the group, saying that the decision has...
View ArticlePress Council files complaint against caretakers in Koza İpek media group
Turkey’s Press Council has filed a complaint against a penal court judge who assigned a caretaker panel to the management of Koza İpek Group’s media outlets. The council said in a statement on Nov. 4...
View ArticleThe G-20 summit in a country of unlawfulness and oppression
Bülent Keneş…Unfortunately, the G-20 Leaders' Summit will be held in a country whose democracy is bleeding out and whose legal and judicial system is in its death throes, and which conducted its last...
View ArticleWhistleblower claims Erdoğan ordered seizure of media close to Gülen movement
Turkish whistleblower Fuat Avni has claimed that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the appointment of trustees to seize media outlets close to the Gülen movement inspired by Turkish Islamic...
View ArticleTurkish police raid leading business unions days before G-20 summit
In the latest wave of political intimidation against government critics in Turkey, police searched the offices of a number of unions affiliated with the leading business group, the Turkish...
View ArticleThe state of the Gülen movement post Nov. 1
İhsan Yılmaz 1. Many Gülen movement volunteers did not want to see the Justice and Development Party (AKP) return to power, hoping that the tyranny, which marked the past two years, would end. In this...
View ArticleIFJ general secretary: Turkey is largest jail for journalists in Europe
Anthony Bellanger, the general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday that as...
View ArticleFears of government seizure spill over to Turkey's universities
Tülay Çetingüleç A week before Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, Koza Ipek Holding, whose 22 companies include a media group, were handed over to trustees under a judicial ruling requested by the chief...
View ArticleOppression of dershanes continues despite top court’s ruling
Although the Constitutional Court and the Council of State had recently given orders to cancel a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government bill that aimed to close down prep schools, some...
View ArticlePress freedom continues to suffer as AK Party regains power
Press freedom, freedom of expression and the rule of law look set to continue suffering as the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) regains a stranglehold on power in Turkey after a surprise...
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Zaman daily issues historic call to protect democracy, human rights
Dozens of well-respected intellectuals, politicians and journalists have supported a historic call by the Zaman daily to defend fundamental human rights, media freedoms, rule of law and democracy in...
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