On Press
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Governments urged to protect press freedom
ISTANBUL - Forty-eight journalists from 19 countries, including Turkey, sign a charter on the role of governments in ensuring and protecting freedom of the press and the ability of journalists to perform their jobs without obstruction. The charter on press freedoms has been created over a period of two years and has been applauded by EU officials.
More than a pair of dimes to examine the paradigm
Monday, May 3, is "World Press Freedom Day," an occasion that deserves notice. I am writing on the morning of May 1, an occasion that a few blocks from my house will soon transform into a test of wills over freedom of expression. So let me deal with both dates.
The curious case of Mustafa Balbay
If you want to get a sense of what has been going on in the Turkish political scene lately, you should take a look at the case of Mustafa Balbay. Balbay is the Ankara correspondent of daily Cumhuriyet, the beacon of Kemalist (i.e., secularist and nationalist) ideology.
The Black Book
The U.S. State Department has issued its 2008 Human Rights Report. Human rights records of the United States are self-evident. So we may say, "The United States should focus on the human rights violations they commit first and then should criticize others." In fact, China is getting furious about the criticism and published a counter-report on human rights violations by the United States. This report was released the day after that of the United States.
Technical failures recorded on Turkish plane week prior to crash
The Turkish Airlines (THY) plane that crash-landed in Amsterdam Wednesday was sent in for technical repairs twice the week prior to the accident, sources told hurriyet.com.tr. Turkish Airlines said Thursday technical maintenance was carried out in accordance with procedures. (UPDATED)
'Baseless' levy on Doğan 'attack on press freedom'
ISTANBUL – A nearly half-billion-dollar levy imposed late Monday by Treasury officials on the parent company of the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review was characterized yesterday by the paper’s publisher as a blatant government attack on freedom of the press.
’Pure and simple attack on press in Turkey’
ISTANBUL - The Treasury imposes a half-billion-dollar levy against the Doğan Media Group, parent company of Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review, as the government effectively carries its war against the media to a new level. ’This is the levy of a fine against freedom of press,’ says Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, chief executive of Hürriyet.
UN chief in Israel as hosts bomb UN’s HQ
GAZA CITY- Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters, media buildings and a hospital in the Gaza Strip yesterday, engulfing the buildings in fire, as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the region on a mission to end Israel's offensive that has killed at least 1,100 people.
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
A time of transition, watched over by a two-faced Roman god
In general, the changes we have made - and are making - in the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review have been warmly greeted by readers. Yes, the "Horizons" page with its unorthodox geographical divisions has turned a few heads. And if the point of our our new "Metronome" is indeed to catch the "beat of the cities," we will first have to catch it ourselves. Give us another week or two.
