Turkse regering vervolgt en intimideert journalisten meer dan ooit

Turkey's Press Freedom Crisis
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), oktober 2012

The Dark Days of Jailing Journalists and Criminalizing Dissent. Turkish authorities are engaging in widespread criminal prosecution and jailing of journalists, and are applying other forms of severe pressure to promote self-censorship in the press, a CPJ analysis shows.

Zie ook:

Free press in crisis in Turkey, CPJ says
Hurriyet Daily News, 22 oktober 2012

Turkey's battles with Islamic creationists continue
Door Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, 12 maart 2009

Later toegevoegd:

'Turkije, van militaire staat naar politiestaat'
Doo Betsy Udink, De Volkrkant, 21 januari 2012

'We are all journalists now'
Door Dierdre Dloguleski, Columbia Journalism Review, 20 mei 2013

[...] Onder co-founded 140 Journos, an organization whose volunteers use their own mobile devices to provide uncensored news to the public via social media platforms like Twitter and SoundCloud. [...] they are challenging the concept of what it means to be a correspondent in a country that jails more journalists than any other nation, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. [...] When current prime minister Tayyip Erdogan came to power in 2003, he took control of 80 percent of the media companies.

The end of Taraf: the liberals have outlived their usefulness for the AKP
Halil M. Karaveli, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Silk Road Studies Program, 19 december 2012

[Wel is Taraf waarschijnlijk gelieerd aan de Gülen-beweging, die weinig minder suspect is dan de AKP van Erdogan; K]

En m'n blognotities:
Mein Kampf is een bestseller in Turkije en Hitler prijst er 'mannenshampoo' aan
Hoe Turkije de christenen wegpest
Erdogan: de Turkse jeugd moet religieus zijn
Turkse vrouwen in opstand tegen verkrachtingsamusent op tv
Turkse journalisten durven niet te schrijven over islamitische broederschappen
Darwin in Turkije: dwang zonder dwang

Tags: Turkije, persvrijheid, censuur, zelfcensuur, vrije pers, arrestaties, gevangenisstraf, juridische vervolging