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‘Turkey is a prison for journalists’

JANUARY 10 WORKING JOURNALISTS DAY

‘Turkey is a prison for journalists’

Tigris Euphrates Journalists Association Co-Chair Altan says that 2021 was a tough year for journalists working in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority provinces while journalists Gök and Ren talk about the hardships and violations of rights they face in the region.

10 January 2022 Gülistan Korban

19 journalist women battered in Turkey in a year, shows report

JANUARY 10 WORKING JOURNALISTS DAY

19 journalist women battered in Turkey in a year, shows report

The Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform released its annual report on violations of rights faced by journalist women in Turkey on January 10 Working Journalists Day: “We will raise our organized struggle in the face of violence and pressure.”

10 January 2022

‘With journalists arrested and unemployment over 35 percent, there is nothing to celebrate’

JANUARY 10 WORKING JOURNALISTS DAY

‘With journalists arrested and unemployment over 35 percent, there is nothing to celebrate’

In a statement on the occasion of Working Journalists Day, the Journalists’ Union of Turkey recalls that 90 percent of press workers work precariously and without a union and journalists are forced to defend their news at court almost every day.

10 January 2022

‘We will never give up freedom of press,’ says Erdoğan

WORKING JOURNALISTS DAY

‘We will never give up freedom of press,’ says Erdoğan

On January 10 Working Journalists Day in Turkey, President Erdoğan released a statement expressing Turkey’s determination to “not give up press freedom.” But Turkey ranks 154th among 180 countries in the RSF World Press Freedom Index.

11 January 2021

International Press Institute: End Abuse and Persecution of Journalism

JANUARY 10 WORKING JOURNALISTS DAY

International Press Institute: End Abuse and Persecution of Journalism

The IPI has released a statement on the occasion of January 10 Working Journalists Day in Turkey: “The most urgent step to be taken by state authorities is to stop the constant judicial and financial pressure and harassment of media and journalists.”

10 January 2020

Press Council: January 10 Day of 'Journalists Unable to Work’

WORKING JOURNALISTS’ DAY

Press Council: January 10 Day of 'Journalists Unable to Work’

January 10 Working Journalists’ Day, which used to be celebrated as a “festival” in the 1960s and has been celebrated as a “day” since the 1970s, has turned into “the day of journalists who cannot work.”

10 January 2019