Category: ENGLISH
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Hands on journalism: Turkey’s defiant media show humanity in action
Journalists covering the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria walk a fine ethical line between doing their job as reporters while at the same time giving practical help to people overwhelmed by the tragedy. In the critical hours after the earthquake journalists joined humanitarian aid workers in helping to save people trapped under collapsed buildings
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Fresh data on Turkish media: Journo publishes ‘Turkey News Consumer Research 2022’
Emre Kızılkaya, Mustafa Kuleli, and İrem Gül of Journo prepared a report to provide the media industry with the most comprehensive data resource on news consumers in Turkey. As part of the study, an extensive survey with 1,000 participants that represent the Turkish population at the national level was conducted in cooperation with İstanbul Ekonomi
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Still Turkey? Western news media ignores Ankara’s call to rename ‘Türkiye’
Two months after Turkey officially urged the world to start referring to itself as “Türkiye”, no major Western media outlets have changed the naming in their reporting. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sent a request to leading international organizations on May 31, asking them to henceforth call the country by its preferred name “Türkiye” rather
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Is TikTok safe? 5 privacy tips to secure your account
Like all social networks, TikTok allows you to interact with other users and share your content with the world. But is TikTok safe? Here are five privacy tips to secure your account on TikTok An app for creating, sharing, and watching short videos, TikTok has become a popular social media platform across the world. It
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16 journalists arrested in Turkey as parliament commission approves “disinformation bill”
On one of the darkest days for press freedom in Turkey’s recent history, 16 Kurdish journalists have been arrested while a parliamentary commission has approved the “disinformation bill”. The arrests and the bill are blasted by local and international journalism associations as the Turkish government’s latest attempts at censorship. A Turkish court imprisoned pending trial
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Turkey’s leading journalism organizations condemn ‘disinformation bill’
Seven leading journalism organizations in Turkey have called for the withdrawal of the government’s bill on disinformation, warning that it “could lead to one of the heaviest censorship and self-censorship mechanisms in the history of the Republic.” According to the proposed law, persons who spread misinformation may be jailed for one to three years. Here
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European journalists to meet in Turkey’s İzmir for landmark EFJ congress
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has decided to hold its general assembly in the western Turkish city of İzmir. More than 100 journalists from 45 countries in Europe are scheduled to meet in the historic town on June 13-14. Beating several candidates including Paris, Vienna, and Athens, İzmir has been picked as the host
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Turkish Cypriot authorities seek to jail journalist for 10 years over “insult”
Turkish Cypriot columnist and journalists’ union leader Ali Kişmir can be jailed for up to 10 years for “insulting and deriding the security forces” in an opinion article he wrote more than a year ago, a top lawyer announced on Feb. 22. Hasan Esendağlı, who chairs the Cyprus Turkish Bar Association, has said on his
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International media don’t see LGBTI+ resistance in Turkey, like to paint a picture of a ‘country in flames’
While the LGBTI+ community in Turkey struggles with internal violence and hate speech, it also stands up to the “Eurocentric” approach of the international media. The rights defenders we spoke with criticize the international media’s view of LGBTI+ news in Turkey as “a country in flames,” based on the latest example on the PinkNews website.
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The BBC Turkey Strike: Journalists snowball effect hails new victories
The BBC Istanbul bureau strike resulted in victory after 15 days spent outside in freezing cold. Many journalists in Turkey were thrilled by this first successful strike in thirteen years in media. The strike has rekindled our hopes for the future of our profession. As a result of the strike, the negotiations that started with