Category: ENGLISH
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From Florence Nightingale to today’s news: Fundamental role of data visualization
While Florence Nightingale is known as the mother of modern nursery, less is publicly known about her avant-garde approach to the use of data to gain insights into the challenges that hospitals faced in the mid-18th century. Before the concept of data science was even a thing, the “lady with the lamp” had already foreseen
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Turkey’s Journalists’ Union makes a splash with World Press Freedom Day campaign
Turkey’s Journalists’ Union (TGS) marked World Press Freedom Day with a resounding awareness campaign that reached millions of people through online and offline media on May 3. The TGS campaign was entitled #basinbelada (The press is in trouble) as a play on the lyrics of a popular song. More than 200 billboards in Istanbul, Izmir,
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Turkey is bigger than Erdogan
Journalism can only fulfil its public duty where democracy exists. Therefore, we must also fight for democracy for free media. Because Turkey does not fit into the dictatorship shirt on which it is wanted to be worn. Turkey is bigger than Erdogan. There is a cruel despot, and he forcibly silences those who think differently.”
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Turkish court sentences another journalist amid outcry
Ayşegül Doğan has become the latest journalist in Turkey who was sentenced to prison by a court in a controversial case condemned by human rights groups. The 9th Penal Court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır convicted Doğan on Dec. 7 for “establishing and managing an armed organization,” sentencing her to six years and three
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Turkey’s Journalists’ Union depicts grim picture in report on World Press Freedom Day
Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has depicted a grim picture with a special report that was published on World Press Freedom Day. The report was authored by TGS legal and labor experts Ülkü Şahin, İlyas Coşkun and Beste Dönmez Gedek to record the press freedom violations in Turkey from April 2019 to April 2020. According
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Turkey’s Journalists’ Union holds nationwide protests against latest wave of arrests
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has organized nationwide demonstrations to protest the latest wave of arrests targeting newsroom managers and reporters of critical news outlets. The protests led by the TGS were held in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana and Diyarbakir provinces on March 10 under the title “Journalism Is Not a Crime”. 28 journalists
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Turkey’s Journalists’ Union calls on Google to reconsider GNI funding to pro-gov’t Demiroren Media
Google should reconsider its decision to fund a “partisan” and “manipulative” Turkish media group through its news innovation challenge, the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has said in an open letter. The Google News Initiative (GNI) announced the Demiroren Media Group as the only Turkish applicant selected to be funded through GNI Innovation Challenges, stirring
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Google announces financial support to Turkey’s controversial pro-gov’t media group
A controversial pro-government media group has been named as the only recipient from Turkey for Google’s journalism innovation fund. The Google News Initiative (GNI) was originally launched by the U.S.-based platform “to help journalism thrive in the digital age” and “to inject new ideas into the news industry.” For the first time in its history,
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Press freedom in Turkey: Repression is all too real
Tim Dawson traveled to Turkey from November 27-30 2019 to observe and monitor journalists trials as well as participate in an International Conference within the framework of the “Journalism is not a crime” EU-funded project implemented by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS).
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Journalists’ Union of Turkey vows to fight against Hurriyet’s ‘illegal’ layoffs
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has vowed to fight against Hurriyet newspaper’s “illegal” decision to fire 45 of its unionized employees. TGS President Gokhan Durmus stressed during a press conference with more than a dozen Hurriyet journalists at TGS Academy in Istanbul on Nov. 6 that the firings violated Turkey’s Constitution and labor laws.