P24 fighting the good fight, says FT
Describes organisation as bastion against the “renewed onslaught” on Turkish press freedoms
08.05.2014
P24
“Accentuate the positive…eliminate the negative.” Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics and most newspapers sing along when producing a country advertising supplement. That makes this week’s Financial Times special report on Turkey all the more surprising. It paints a depressing pictureof Turkey's progress and it does so only a few column inches away from an ad from Halkbank.
“Dangers lie ahead,” “Country's image and influence abroad have been tarnished” or “Tolerance for Debt approaches its limits,” are just a few of the gloomy headlines, along with a warning from David Gardner, the paper’s international affairs editor, that “The man who would be president may have squandered legacy.”
Another article by free-lance journalist Selin Bucak warns that freedom of the press in Turkey is coming under fresh attack, with, social media being specially targeted.
“Undeterred, a handful of media professionals are fighting to protect free speech. Platform for Independent Journalism P24 for example operates a website promising unbiased reporting, as well as organising workshops to explore and help solve Turkey’s media problems. The polarisation of media which address only [a particular] constituency led to the establishment of P24 by those who believe that no idea or belief could be more valuable than true journalism,’ explains P24 founder, Dogan Akin.”
(Andrew Finkel, P24 member, contributed an article on the construction industry to the supplement)
“Dangers lie ahead,” “Country's image and influence abroad have been tarnished” or “Tolerance for Debt approaches its limits,” are just a few of the gloomy headlines, along with a warning from David Gardner, the paper’s international affairs editor, that “The man who would be president may have squandered legacy.”
Another article by free-lance journalist Selin Bucak warns that freedom of the press in Turkey is coming under fresh attack, with, social media being specially targeted.
Yet not all is doom and gloom, Bucak writes:
“Undeterred, a handful of media professionals are fighting to protect free speech. Platform for Independent Journalism P24 for example operates a website promising unbiased reporting, as well as organising workshops to explore and help solve Turkey’s media problems. The polarisation of media which address only [a particular] constituency led to the establishment of P24 by those who believe that no idea or belief could be more valuable than true journalism,’ explains P24 founder, Dogan Akin.”
(Andrew Finkel, P24 member, contributed an article on the construction industry to the supplement)