Press freedom hits rock bottom in Turkey ahead of G-20 summit
Despite calls in a recently released European Union's progress report for the elimination of restrictions on media freedom in Turkey, the country's journalists continue to be prosecuted and...
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The Brazilian-Turkish Cultural Center (CCBT) and the Rio de Janeiro state government signed an education cooperation agreement on Tuesday paving the way for the establishment of a long-anticipated...
View ArticleBefore it’s too late
Yavuz Baydar As the "democratic community" in the world watches with "the silence of the lambs," power concentrated in the hands of a few individuals continues to bash, limit, eviscerate and suffocate...
View ArticleReactions against handcuffing detainees continue despite suspension of Manisa...
A number of well-known figures continue to criticize the unlawful practice of handcuffing non-resistant arrestees, after the Manisa police chief was temporarily suspended as part of an investigation...
View ArticleThe ‘Ergenekonization’ of the state
Suat Kınıklıoğlu It seems far-fetched but unfortunately we are seeing increasing signs of the “Ergenekonization” of the security establishment under the watch of this government. It is public knowledge...
View ArticlePolice unlawfully raid Zaman, Today’s Zaman and Aksiyon newsrooms
Police broke into the newsrooms of the Zaman and Today's Zaman dailies and the Aksiyon weekly magazine, part of the Zaman Media Group, in the Yenibosna neighborhood of İstanbul late on Wednesday, with...
View ArticleLawyers condemn crackdown on critical media as police raid Zaman media group
Turkish police have raided two newspapers and a weekly magazine in the latest in a series of attempts to silence the critical media, with lawyers condemning the act as an "illegal raid" and another...
View ArticlePress bodies, journalists slam police raid on Zaman as an act of intimidation
Leading press organizations, rights groups and journalists in the country have strongly criticized the police raid on the premises of the Zaman Media Group in İstanbul on Wednesday evening, saying the...
View ArticleWAN-IFRA condemns accreditation ban on critical media outlets for G-20
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) condemned the recent move by the Turkish government to not grant accreditation to critical Turkish...
View ArticleG-20, neo-tutelage or trustee regime
Bülent Keneş All of Turkey's ordeals, past and present, regarding the democratic and legal deficiencies and violations of rights and freedoms can be attributable to the judiciary's and bureaucracy's...
View ArticleTurkey’s apartheid regime under the Islamists
Abdullah Bozkurt Turkey's governing Islamist elites, backed by their neo-nationalist partners, have started to change the republican regime based on parliamentary democracy and the separation of powers...
View ArticleEditor-in-Chief Yılmaz condemns raid on Zaman, calls publication of Özgür...
Mehmet Yılmaz, former publishing coordinator of the Bugün daily and current editor-in-chief of Özgür Düşünce – the altered name of the Özgür Bugün daily – condemned a police raid on Zaman headquarters...
View ArticleUnions say pressure on sacked journos tantamount to hate crime
An ongoing politically motivated witch hunt against dozens of Turkish journalists who were earlier last month fired following a legally flawed court decision, is tantamount to a hate crime and must be...
View ArticleEU says strict legal rules, unanimity required to list a group as terrorist
EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn's spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic has said any decision to list terrorist entities at the EU level must be based on elements that match the legal requirements and the...
View ArticlePressure over critical media despite warnings from EU, US
Despite criticism from press organizations and the Western world over the deterioration press freedom in Turkey ahead of the upcoming G-20 summit, pressure over critical media continues uninterrupted...
View ArticleG-20 leaders must caution AK Party government on flagging freedoms
As leaders of the world's 20 most influential economies gather for the 10th summit of the Group of 20 (G-20) in Antalya, opposition politicians and academics believe the visiting leaders must stay true...
View ArticleGov’t hate speech against Hizmet condemned
Analysts have criticized the hate speech employed by top government officials and the pro-government media against the faith-based Hizmet movement and other dissidents, while calling for solidarity...
View ArticleTurkey continues to muzzle democracy’s watchdogs
Noam Chomsky and Christophe Deloire Journalists are the “watchdogs” of democracy, according to the European Court of Human Rights. Anyone who wants to control a country without being troubled by...
View ArticleAFSV Statement on Paris Terror Attacks
The Alliance for Shared Values strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Paris. We stand united with the people of France and with people around the world in mourning the loss of innocent lives and...
View ArticleEC progress report: Turkey makes no progress on media freedom and judicial...
A delayed European Commission progress report, which was released on Nov. 10, on EU candidate Turkey's current performance and progress toward accession, expressed great concern over media freedom,...
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