Tag: Journalism
FREEDOM of speech came under further attack in Turkey today when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) outlined legislation placing serious restrictions on social media. Ozlem Zengin, deputy chair of the AKP parliamentary group, denied ...
JOURNALISTS in Turkey are demanding the immediate release of Jin News editor Ayse Guney, who was detained today during operations that targeted women in the largely. Kurdish south-east of the country. She was held after a police raid ...
Jun 16, 2020 ISTANBUL — Images of people standing in long lines outside Istanbul’s Caglayan Courthouse filled social media streams in Turkey Tuesday as the nation’s courts reopened this week to a backlog of cases ...
China and Turkey were the world’s most prolific jailers of journalists in 2019, according to a special report released by the press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists this week. The report, described as “a snapshot of ...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes questions after visiting people injured in the collapse of an apartment building in Istanbul on Feb. 9, 2019. -/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared ...