About a year ago Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan devoted half an hour of his parliamentary speech to threatening "that media group" that he claimed was covering the controversy around the Islamic turban in a "wicked way." It was the same media group that also publishes this newspaper.
A half-billion-dollars tax levy imposed on Turkey's largest media company Dogan Group raises concerns over possible efforts to silence the critic media, International Press Institute (IPI) and South East Europe Media Organization said late on Friday.
A half-billion-dollars tax levy imposed on Turkey's largest media company Dogan Group raises concerns over possible efforts to silence the critic media, International Press Institute (IPI) and South East Europe Media Organization said late on Friday.
ANKARA – The imposing tax fine on Dogan Media Group, or DMG, is a testimony to the danger democracy faces in Turkey, parliamentarians said yesterday, adding that government has geared up its campaign to suppress odd voices in the run up to local elections March 29.
ANKARA - The monumental tax fine imposed on the Doğan Media Group is a danger to democracy, according to opposition deputies in Parliament. International advocates for press freedom chime in to lament the threatening menace to media independence represented by the fine.
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.
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
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
ANKARA - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey said Friday that freedom of press was very important for a democracy. Ross Wilson hosted diplomacy correspondents at his residence before his departure from Turkey early next week. He said he respected what journalists were doing and urged them to continue performing their job.
ANKARA - The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey said Friday that freedom of press was very important for a democracy. Ross Wilson hosted diplomacy correspondents at his residence before his departure from Turkey early next week. He said he respected what journalists were doing and urged them to continue performing their job.