İlhan Çomak trial: There is something rotten in Turkish law
Fırat Aydınkaya, the attorney of poet İlhan Çomak who has been imprisoned for a quarter of a century, writes in SUSMA about the ‘‘unjust’’ trial which has been continuing for 22 years
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İlhan Çomak: When in prison, poetry, too, is confined
“I have never self-censored my poetry, neither has my poetry ever been censored; to the contrary, I actually hear that many of the officials here, who are obligated to read my poetry, quite like it.” Ayşen Güven from Speak Up Platform spoke to the poet İlhan Çomak, who has been in prison for 26 years, about the prison conditions during the pandemic, the injustice he experienced, and his poems
Journalism in times of calamity: So, what exactly did Fatih Portakal do?
Crackdown on journalists is on the rise during the corona pandemic. In Turkey, President Erdoğan filed a criminal complaint against Fox News anchor-man and journalist Fatih Portakal for spreading lies and manipulating the public through his social media posts. The story is always the same wherever you go: Fatih Portakal in Turkey, journalist Ana Lalic in Serbia, the law recently enacted in Vietnam, and the measures taken by the media supervision authority Roskomnadzor in Russia. Reporters continue to be accused with such vague language as “spreading fake news”, “sowing fear”, and “causing panic”
“Books can not make someone immoral but they can talk about immoral people’’
While reactions to the recent decision to ban the distribution and sales of the book entitled ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Girls in Turkey for ‘being obscene publication’, Buket Uzuner’s book that was initially published 34 years ago was censored too, on the grounds that it could have an adverse effect on the spiritual well-being of children under 18