Femen, a group made up of women activists, staged a demonstration about eight years ago in front of the Turkish Embassy in Kiev, carrying posters that said, “Ukraine is not a brothel.”
Every Monday is a new source of sorrow for me. My pieces are printed on daily Hürriyet’s ombudsman’s column section, but daily Cumhuriyet ombudsman Güray Öz’s column has been empty for weeks. Öz has been in prison for the past 92 days along with the other writers and administrators of Cumhuriyet.
Journalists’ reflexes override fear. While people run away from bullets, journalists deliberately head toward the place where the bullets are coming from.
How come what has been called the “Service Movement” (Hizmet Hareketi) is now being called the “Fetullahist Terrorist Organization?”
Fortunately, the Turkish media has abandoned its love for militarism. The active stance adopted since the July 15 failed coup attempt is proof of this
Should a prosecutor watch a television show into which a case has been opened, including as “evidence” a recording of the show?
Unfortunately, we are again face-to-face with a bill written with an étatist mindset
In the southeast of Turkey, it is very difficult to do journalism and report from the regions where curfews have been imposed
We have seen many times in the recent past sad examples in the name of democracy of how a submissive justice can turn into a weapon in the hands of political powers.
