Tag: turkey
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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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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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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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BBC journalists warn of strike at Turkey office as union negotiations stall
Turkey’s Journalists’ Union (TGS) has hanged a decision to strike at the Istanbul office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Talks for a collective labor agreement between TGS and BBC ended without a deal this week, as the union declared on Dec. 7 that the strike was imminent at the Turkish branch of the British
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Turkey’s Journalists’ Union warns of strike at AFP as talks for collective agreement stall
Turkey’s Journalists’ Union (TGS) has hanged a decision to strike at the Istanbul office of Agence France-Press (AFP), a global news agency. The three-month talks for a collective labor agreement between TGS and AFP ended with no deal this week, the union said in a statement on Sept. 10, declaring that “the employer’s representatives turned a
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News Deserts Spread in Turkey’s Inner Aegean, Central Anatolian and Eastern Regions
Over the course of two weeks, we scraped 1,116,916 news articles from more than 6,500 Turkish news websites in which the names of 973 districts appear. Which districts have the highest or lowest coverage? Where do we see original journalism the most and where exactly lacks it? Which districts of Turkey face the risk of
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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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Turkey’s daily Hurriyet fires 45 employees in latest crackdown on journalism
Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper has fired 45 of its employees, including several senior journalists, in an unprecedented move that triggered an outrage among press freedom advocates. Most of the managing editors, reporters and other personnel who were laid off received the notice on Oct. 31, which was delivered to their homes while they were still working