Dogan Yayin Holding has increased its bid to US$879.5 million (from $742 million) for a 53% stake in the country’s leading satellite pay-TV operator Digiturk.

Restrictions on free speech and association were evident in the high number of prosecutions and ongoing trials of journalists, political activists, lawyers, and students.

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Turkey’s media proprietors seem all too willing to play along with practices that make the country feel like a corrupt central Asian republic

In Turkey as elsewhere in the Middle East, the explosion of Internet-based media outlets has surpassed the ability of the government to control information completely.

Turkey’s media ownership

First Test For English

Index on Censorship’s policy paper, Time to Step Up: The EU and freedom of expression, looks at freedom of expression both within the European Union’s 28 member states,

The way the media deliberately failed to cover the unrest in depth and diversity has become a big SOS signal for the miserable state of journalism in Turkey

Turkey, one of the most repressive countries in the world for reporters, is welcoming outcasts from Egypt and Syria.

Egyptian court in Alexandria sentenced 14 women to 11-year prison terms for carrying anti-government banners at a demonstration last July.

Self-censorship is the result. It is directed from the boardroom. Equally insidious is the widespread use of intimidation to pressure newspapers and their employers.

Columbia Journalism Review asks the question: What is journalism for?

Speech by the representative of Freedom Forum,
OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting 2013