A remarkable report (part one) by Etienne Copeaux on the murder of Metin Göktepe, January 8, 1996 in Istanbul. This young gifted photojournalist, who worked for the leftist periodical Evrensel, was savagely beaten to death, by the police while covering...
Lire la suiteTurkish TV Station reports from the future: Read how Samanyolu TV, a media flagship of the Gülen movement, reported the court decision (to continue detaining journalists Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, and others on the Oda TV trial) 21 minutes before their meeting...
Lire la suiteThe Research Foundation Switzerland-Turkey (RFST) created a branch of GIT in Switzerland on December 29, 2011. For more information on GIT Switzerland, please contact : Prof. Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser ( info@sfst.ch ).
Lire la suiteJanuary 1, 2012 : Second list of signatures for the GIT’s Inaugural Declaration (November 21, 2011) Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey A third list will be published January 15, 2012 Please, send your signature to hamit.bozarslan@ehess.fr...
Lire la suiteWith hope that 2012 will bring freedom and peace to our professors, students, researchers, translators and publishers in Turkey (and elsewhere…)
Lire la suiteFreedom of Science Read on the implications of some recent governmental decision on the freedom of science in Turkey on GIT - North America An Intervention letter in support of the autonomy of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Read the letter of the International...
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Ragip Zarakolu has received the 2012 Foundation Info-Türk Prize for Freedom http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=75852
Lire la suiteCrucial Informations on Academic Freedom in Turkey provided by GIT-North America See http://gitamerica.blogspot.com/ (Newsfeed, December 30, 2011)
Lire la suiteAn interview was conducted by journalist Jerome Gautheret in Le Monde (12/29/11) with French historian, professor and co-founder of GIT Initiative and GIT France, Vincent Duclert (EHESS) on the Armenian genocide, the recent non-negation law in France...
Lire la suiteThe statements of the Turkish Minister of Internal Affairs, Idris Naim Sahin, diffused in the press on December 26, 2011, illustrates that the Turkish government considers activities that fall under freedom of research and expression as “indirect activities...
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