In this week’s column, author Tarik Gunersel writes about literary and social media crackdowns as well as the recent challenges to religious freedom under Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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In this cartoon Enrico Bertuccioli (Italy) comments on Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan’s war on social media.
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From ordering a TV station to stop broadcasting a speech by an opposition leader to the imprisonment of Gezi Park protesters, and from the bombing of Kurdish peasants to the targeting of journalists, each day “it seems that PM Erdoğan’s government creates new material for Ripley’s Believe it or Not.”
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As more fragments of news about a Turkish corruption scandal are released, journalists are fired, fingers are pointed, and even the upper echelons of power aren’t safe. Writer Tarik Günersel comments on the latest developments in Turkey.
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In what is a reversal of a decades old policy, the Turkish Ministry of Culture refuses to give financial aid to private theaters that supported the Gezi Park protests and that stage plays that violate the public’s general morality. Turkey columnist and author Tarik Günersel explains the situation.
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Writer and Turkey columnist Tarık Günersel sounds alarm on the controversial Kanal Istanbul, a canal project that, scientists argue, could cause severe ecological harm to the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Sampsonia Way presents the opinions of three members of the Turkish Media -Zeynep Oral, Mine Kırıkkanat, and Süreyyya Evren- on the events of the Turkish Spring.
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