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Quite some interesting information and news from the Kurdish regions – Bakur (Turkey), Başȗr (Iraq), Rojava (Syria) and Rojhilat (Iran) – is rarely, if ever, reported by the mainstream media.
The Kurdish Institute tries to fill this gap by reporting on a regular basis through its own news page recent facts and events, both from the Kurdish regions and from the rest of the world.
The day independent journalists were jailed
One year ago today some forty-eight journalists were detained in Turkey in perhaps the harshest attack on media to date. They were mostly working for Kurdish media, Ozgur Gundem, DIHA News Agency, ANF.
Book lists banned publications, Vercihan Ziflioglu
Ottoman and Turkish authorities have banned 20,000 books in the Turkey since 1834, according to a new book by Emin Karaca, who said censors in the republican era have approached their work with a zeal that was unseen in imperial times.
‘World’s biggest prison’ for journalists is Turkey, says watchdog
ANKARA- Turkey has more jailed reporters than China, Eritrea, Iran or Syria, making it “the world’s biggest prison for journalists,” a leading media watchdog said on Wednesday.
Campaign : We are not terrorists but journalists
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) launched an international campaign to set free all journalists in Turkey. EFJ unions in Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Hungary, Germany, Spain and Italy have already been linked with arrested journalists in Turkey. With YOUR help, more than 70 other detained journalists could benefit from a direct pairing in this way.
Freedom to Publish Mass Trial Continues in Turkey
IPA Calls for Release of Academic and Publisher Deniz Zarakolu, Geneva, 11 December 2012
Appeal to the Prime Minister Erdogan to end the KCK trials
Leading British lawyers, who recently observed the latest session of the mass trial of lawyers in Istanbul on 6 November 2012, briefed British parliamentarians on their concerns.
Urgent Appeal to members of Parliament, the European Parliament, NGOs and activists
Towards freedom and democracy for Syria and all the peoples of the Middle East
Press freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey – What’s wrong with Turkey ?
Press conference:
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is organizing a press conference on "Press freedom and freedom of expression – What's wrong with Turkey ?" next Wednesday 19 December 2012 at 11 am with Ragip Zarakolu (Turkish columnist, writer, publisher) and Philippe Leruth (Belgian journalist, EFJ's vice-president).
Özgüden: International Pressure Needed To Stop Jailing Of Journalists In Turkey
Inteview by RFE/RL on December 12, 2012:
