“[There is] no difference between the bullets fired in [Kurdish land] and the articles written in Ankara.” -Turkish Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin The headlines out of Turkey today are dramatic. In what Reuters has called the “Biggest Media Case” …
Posted in Censorship, Journalists, Media, Political Prisoners | 2 CommentsIn my article “ROJ TV in the Land of the Snow Queen”, I questioned the verdict of the Kurdish tv-station ROJ TV that was ruled by the Danish court to be a mouthpiece for the Kurdish rebel group PKK, designated …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media | 3 CommentsOne of the essential pillar of democracy is freedom of press and if this pillar is missing in a democratic country, then that country can no longer be considered democratic. True, Turkey hold free elections and it has competing political …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Media, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Complete List of 104 Journalists in Turkish JailsA Facebook page named Anlatılmaz Yaşanır, which translates into You’ve got to live to feel it contained pictures of Kurdish people killed in Turkey, some of the pictures were taken as a mockery of Kurdish people by the Soldiers because …
Posted in Media, Turkey | 23 CommentsOnce upon a time there was a troll, Hans Christian Andersen wrote. This troll was the worst of the trolls, he was the Devil and the Devil had a mirror. It was a wicked invention; everything good and beautiful became …
Posted in Censorship, Media, Turkey | Comments Off on ROJ TV in the Land of the Snow Queen36 journalists have been sent to jail for alleged links with KCK (Union of Communities in Kurdistan) despite lack of evidence of any criminal activities or association with KCK. The list of the detainees is as follows, published on DIHA. …
Posted in Activism, Free speech, Media, Turkey, Women | 1 CommentIstanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …
Posted in Censorship, Media, Turkey | 1 CommentFor TIME magazine’s world-renowned recognition for most influential person of the year, the international publication has selected a variety of people from all walks of life and asked their readers to vote to help them make their choice. Among the …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Media, Turkey | 8 Comments