• Since no cameras are allowed in the courtroom Ahmet Şık's friend Timur Soykan illustrated the courtroom for our readers.

    Since no cameras are allowed in the courtroom Ahmet Şık's friend Timur Soykan illustrated the courtroom for our readers.

No release for journalists

Hopes of supporters were dashed when the court refused to release 13 journalists despite powerful defense statements and mild attitude of the judges.

News, Etc.

5/01/12 - 21:35

 

Former Turkish Chief-of-staff arrested

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Former Chief-of-Staff retired General İlker Başbug became the highest ranking officer to be arrested in relation with the military’s alleged attempts to overthrow the government.

News,Etc.

5/01/12 - 23:46

“This trial is devoid of justice and law” Ahmet Şık declares at court

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Ahmet Şık delivered his defense at court today more than ten months after his arrest on charges of writing a book to aid and abet the Ergenekon terror organization. He said he has been charged through false and fabricated evidence.

News, Etc.

5/01/12 - 04:43

Starbucks occupiers want to be heard

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For over more than two weeks, a group of students is occupying the Starbucks shop at Boğaziçi University. “If these companies are free to occupy our area, then we are free to occupy theirs.”

Lucas Derycke

26/12/11 - 02:53

Internet Filter in Turkey to stay

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Despite protests Internet filters will stay in Turkey, according to experts because the majority of the people are not interested. According to KONDA research company 42 percent of the Turks even believe that Internet is more harmful than useful.

Carolin Winterholler

22/12/11 - 03:16

OSCE representative visits Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in prison

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OSCE’s media freedom representative who visited Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in prison says “They are in wonderful spirits.”

Gökhan Tan

17/12/11 - 09:28

Ahmet Şık’s book in the New Yorker Magazine

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The New Yorker Magazine published an article on the TUYAP Book Fair and Ahmet Şık’s book in its December 1 issue.

News, Etc.

2/12/11 - 22:40

Who wants the metro bridge over the Golden Horn?

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The metro bridge under construction over the Golden Horn is becoming a controversial topic. UNESCO denied insistent reports by the Radikal Newspaper that it has lifted its objection to the project.

Gökhan Tan

30/11/11 - 04:00

A ghost story from bustling Beyoglu

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Stories don’t need to be true to be good. The one I’m about to tell you is partly true and partly speculation. Or what else would you expect from a ghost story?

Lucas Derycke

23/11/11 - 00:57

The Wall Street Journal reports publication of Şık’s banned book

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The Wall Street Journal’s Europe edition carried a dispatch from Istanbul in today’s issue reporting the publication of Ahmet Şık’s banned book carrying the names of 124 journalists as co-authors.

News,Etc.

17/11/11 - 00:33

Journalism: A dying profession?

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Next to his job as professor at Bilgi University, Prof. Dr. Haluk Şahin is also a renowned journalist whose latest book is called ‘Final notes on a dying profession’ and deals with the future of Turkish media. When it comes to Prof. Dr. Haluk Şahin, that future is anything but rosy.

Lucas Derycke, Zeynep Rekkalı

15/11/11 - 01:01

 

27 January Friday

Kronik Medya

Unclassified: Turkish Intelligence Service’s PR Effort

Aslı Tunç

Turkish Intelligence Organization (MIT) opened its doors to media in the wake of accusations that it provided the faulty information that led to the killing of 35 citizens on the Iraqi border. However, MIT’s PR campaign left critical questions unanswered, as expected.

other articles


  • Visiting SALT: A hub of cultural activity

    The place is called simply SALT. It has the widest range of cultural activity from urban problems to film shows. The visitors can contribute too.

    22/12/11 - 03:36

  • Europeans learn Islamic banking

    The crisis shaking the financial world leads to new trends one of which is Islamic banking. In Brussels, two training courses are launched for those who want to learn everything about Islamic banking. ‘If everybody would have banked according to the sharia’, one of the organizers says, ‘there would be no crisis’.

    11/12/11 - 22:42

  • Photography mingles with art at “Ultramemoire”

    Art exhibition at the French Cultural Institute displays works by artists who get their inspiration from photographs.

    5/12/11 - 01:55

  • KREK: A complete new approach to theater

    At Santral Istanbul KREK theater is displaying a new approach to dramaturgy. Their works are also going to be performed in Europe.

    25/11/11 - 01:58

  • Cervantes’ left hand

    Until the 25th of November, an art exhibition about Cervantes’ left hand is being held at Karşı Sanat Galerisi in Istanbul. The project is the result of collaboration between twelve Turkish and Spanish artists.

    10/11/11 - 02:46

  • Despite ban no way to control killer jeans

    Sandblasting is banned in Turkey, but what happened in the rest of the world? Did the problem emerge elsewhere? Or did jeans companies finally find out that the profits aren’t worth the lives?

    24/10/11 - 11:33

  • Shake-up in Turkish military

    Commanders of armed forces branches except the gendarmerie asked for their retirement collectively. Although President Gül said the situation was “extraordinary” but no crisis should be expected, the outcome of the Supreme Military Council meeting this week might lead to other resignations from the ranks.

    1/08/11 - 05:21

  • Erdogan announces his pharaonic project for Istanbul

    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his colossal project for Istanbul. It is a man-made 45-kilometer long, 150-meter wide and 25-meter deep canal that would connect the Marmara Sea to the Black Sea just west of Istanbul.

    27/04/11 - 11:57

  • Italian satirist Sabina Guzzanti at Bilgi

    Italian satirist, commentator and filmaker Sabina Guzzanti was a guest of Domino lectures at Bilgi’s Santral campus this week.

    13/04/11 - 09:02

  • New wave of journalists’ arrests sparks reaction at home and abroad

    Four years after the trial began another group of journalists, including Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, find themselves arrested on charges of belonging to the Ergenekon terror gang. They are the most unlikely suspects because both are known by their research work against the “deep-state.”

    6/03/11 - 05:14

  • Roma community seeks solution in organizing

    Few years ago there was hardly any organization within the Roma community in Turkey. Today there are 110 Roma associations organized in 11federations all over Turkey. Hacer Foggo, a human rights activist focusing on the problems of the community explains how the Roma people decided to seek solutions to their problems by organizing.

    14/12/10 - 07:06

  • A traveling Czech in a most unlikely place

    What the heck a Czech girl passing the Islamic feast of sacrifice in a remote village with only five houses in eastern Turkey near the Armenian border? Moreover, she is in this country for the first time.

    6/12/10 - 15:57

  • An English philosopher at football stand

    Stephen Mumford is the head of Humanities School at Nottingham University, U.K. He is a philosophy teacher with a PhD. From Leeds University entitled “Dispositions and Reductionism.” But this introduction should not mislead the reader. He is by no means a long-haired, bearded, spectacled, and pensive philosopher. This is maybe due to his interest in football that goes back to his childhood years.

    25/04/10 - 18:19

  • Polonezkoy: Struggling to preserve its Polish identity

    In the Istanbul suburb, surrounded by woods in the company of wild animals lies a place which used to be called by the inhabitants, the ‘Polish oasis in foreign land’. More than a century-and-half after its foundation Polonezkoy is struggling to retain its Polish character.

    17/10/09 - 17:54