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The Turkey director at Human Rights Watch, Emma Sinclair-Webb, added to the criticism "In the absence of any evidence of their role or participation in the violent attempt to overthrow the government, we strongly condemn this accelerated assault on the media, which further undermines Turkey’s democratic credentials", she said.
Alleged sympathies of the detained Turkish journalists between 2016 and 2019. Many journalists in Turkey are being persecuted and kept in jail all over the country. [1] Below is an extensive list of the prisoners, past and present. 231 journalists have been arrested after 15 July 2016 alone. [2]
Abdülhamit Bilici (born 1970) is a Turkish journalist and media executive. Bilici was once one of the prominent and influential media figures in Turkey, as the last editor-in-chief of Zaman, the country's most widely circulated newspaper [1] and the CEO of the Feza Publications which ranked 244th [2] among top 500 companies according to Istanbul Chamber of Industry's ISO500. [3]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court on Friday sentenced journalist Sedef Kabas to more than two years in prison after ruling that she insulted the president, despite a ruling by Europe's top ...
Keneş earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Boğaziçi University and a PhD from Marmara University. From 2005 to 2006, he served as editor-in-chief of Bugün . In 2007, he joined Today's Zaman as the newly-founded English-language newspaper's first editor-in-chief.
Turkey's 2001 financial crisis further strengthened media owners' hands, as 3–5,000 journalists were fired, and the most troublesome ones targeted first. [12] Some themes have long remained quasi-taboo in the Turkish media, including the role of the Army, the Cyprus issue and the rights of the Kurdish and Armenian minorities.
Afterwards, he continued the same work for the newspaper Today's Zaman. In 2011, Bozkurt defended the imprisonment of journalists in the Ergenekon investigation stating that journalists like Ahmet Şık were not being an investigative journalist conducting "independent research", but was hatching "a plot designed and put into action by the ...
The physical safety of journalists in Turkey is at risk. Several journalists died in the 1990s at the height of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. Soon after the pro-Kurdish press had started to publish the first daily newspaper by the name of "Özgür Gündem" (Free Agenda) killings of Kurdish journalists started. Hardly any of them has been ...