Mehveş Evin 12 July 2021
Jailing, house arrest, investigation, trial, espionage, personal attacks. Here’s how journalists are harassed in Erdogan’s Turkey.
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- 9 July 2020An appeal signed by over 150 leading liberal writers and scholars against the threat of “censoriousness” and intolerance in the cultural sphere.
- 30 August 2011In January this year in Tahrir Square, there were obviously not only publishers, authors and bookshop owners, just a few hundred people in a city with almost twenty million inhabitants. In Tahrir Square, however, there were hundreds of thousands of people and, over the years, publishers, authors and bookshops had perceived and passed on their hidden thoughts, secret aspirations, concealed worries and their pressing demands. Thousands of people, who now, as individuals or as a community, are taking charge of their present to create a shared future.
