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The kind of reporter democracy demands
Nedim Şener, one of Turkey’s most respected investigative journalists, is someone we know well at the Daily News. His reporting for our sister newspaper Milliyet has appeared in our pages many times. Knowing Şener, we can predict what will happen if he is found guilty of violating secrecy laws with his new book on the murder of another colleague, Hrant Dink.
Incest father admits rape, but denies killing
ST. POELTEN - Austrian incest father, Josef Fritzl, used his daughter like his property, says the prosecutor at the beginning of a controversial trial that has shocked the world entirely. Hiding his face behind a blue folder, Fritzl, accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a cramped and windowless dungeon and fathering her seven children, pleads guilty to rape and incest but not guilty to murder and enslavement
IPI’s Director David Badge on ’Justice Denied’ campaign
ISTANBUL - Instead of protesting for every journalist under threat International Press Institute’s new campaign focuses on 10 journalists. ’We hope stories told in this campaign will sound the alarm and encourage those with the power to do so, to take action’ says IPI Director David Dadge
IPI's Director David Badge on 'Justice Denied' campaign
ISTANBUL - Instead of protesting for every journalist under threat International Press Institute's new campaign focuses on 10 journalists. 'We hope stories told in this campaign will sound the alarm and encourage those with the power to do so, to take action' says IPI Director David Dadge
May 1 celebrations occur with only minor incident
May 1 celebrations and protests took place throughout Turkey yesterday. The Istanbul neighborhood of Kadikoy held the largest protest meeting, although with an estimated 25 thousand people attending, it was noticeably smaller than last year's protest, which was attended by an estimated 100 thousand people.
Lawyers for Semdinli suspects: We cannot find witnesses
The lawyers defending the two major sergeants arrested and held following the bookstore bombing incidents in Semdinli have complained that they are unable to find any witnesses in the case. "Citizens in the region are afraid of possible reaction to them if they were to come forward to testify on our behalf....there is pressure in the region to testify against the government though." Retired colonel Mehmet Gocmen and defense attorney Vedat Gulsen have decried the case as being "the government against the government," saying that the "arrest of these two men chalked up points for the terrorist organization."