Teacher Ayşe Çelik had been sentenced to 1 year and three months of imprisonment due to ‘illegal organization propaganda’ by saying, “Do not let children die,” referring to the curfews in Kurdish provinces on a TV show she participated to via phone call.
Independent Communication Network (BIA) launched the ‘January-March 2018 Media Monitoring Report’.
Pressure against journalists and media organizations continued in April with lawsuits and penalties.
The Constitutional Court (AYM) has issued a significant verdict regarding the application of ‘Assassination of Admirals Case’ defendant Mehmet Orhan Yücel based on the claim that his right to protect his honour and dignity was violated.
Scholars at Risk 2018 Courage to Think Award was granted to the Academics for Peace due to their extraordinary efforts in establishing solidarity at universities and encouraging freedom to question as well as principles of peaceful opinion exchange.
On this month’s workshop, we talked about age-based discrimination and age hierarchy with Birsen Atakan from…