As citizen journalism collective @dokuz8haber also under pressure “Turkish journalism ‘agonizing under unbearable pressure’

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It looks like our citizen journalism collective Dokuz8Haber’s Twitter account wanted to be blocked. So far Twitter did not respond positively to Turkish judiciary…

 Turkish journalism ‘agonizing under unbearable pressure’

International Press Institute – Sep 24

Category: Press Releases, Europe, Turkey VIENNA, Sep 24, 2015 – Journalism in Turkey is “agonizing under unbearable pressure”, leading Turkish journalist and Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Turkish National

Inside Turkey’s media battleground

 AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)

Threats, raids and arrests: Turkey intensifies pressure on the press; Plus, Bosnia’s divided media.

Turkish police detain pollsters over ‘unauthorized research’

A local research company, which was previously raided by financial inspectors after releasing an opinion poll showing Turkey’s ruling party losing votes, has announced its pollsters were detained in Istanbul while conducting a study

Turkish police detain pollsters over ‘unauthorized research’

A local research company, which was previously raided by financial inspectors after releasing an opinion poll showing Turkey’s ruling party losing votes, has announced its pollsters were detained in Istanbul while conducting a study

Turkish columnist detained in İzmir

Gültekin Avcı, a columnist for daily Bugün, was detained on Sept. 18 in the Aegean province of İzmir as a part of an investigation into an alleged terrorist organization

Turkey’s shameful press freedom record

It was in 2014 when the Freedom House decreased Turkey’s press freedom status from partly free to not free as a result of sharp deterioration in press freedom in 2013.

Opposition Journalists in Turkey Increasingly Face Violent Attacks

 NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU

Angry mobs lashing out against an influential newspaper are part of a fierce campaign of intimidation that seems inspired by Turkish politicians.

VIDEO: Turkey-PKK conflict ‘escalating fast’

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

The number of policemen and soldiers who have been killed in Turkey since a ceasefire with Kurdish militant group the PKK broke down in July, has risen to more than 120.

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Spirit of Occupy Gezi haunts Turkey’s authoritarian regime in its second anniversary.

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This is a journalist from Zaman daily, pro-Gülenist. Insulted, beaten and detained like this by a policeman today in Gezi Park.

Taksim Solidarity had a sit in İstiklal St, Taksim

Taksim Square and Gezi Park closed on Gezi anniversary

Taksim Square and Gezi Park, in addition to numerous other roads and streets, have been closed to the public on the second anniversary of the anti-government Gezi protests which spread across Turkey

Police blocked routes to Taksim Square

140journos ‏@140journos  13:28 İst. İstiklal Cd., #BerkinElvan’ın annesi #GülsümElvan, devam eden oturma eyleminde. @yarinhaber @omurdenden

And He is scared, getting angrier, helpless and his rhetoric increasingly paranoid, not to mention baseless…:

Surrounded by Ottoman soldiers, Erdoğan toughens rhetoric against New York Times

“This newspaper had once called Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid an ‘absolute monarch.’ And today it directs to the Republic of Turkey and me the hate that it once directed to the Ottoman state,” President Erdoğan has said

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