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Kurdish journalist Seda Taskin
JOURNALISM in Turkey is “a dangerous profession,” with hundreds of media workers locked up by an authoritarian government which brands them terrorists, according to press freedom groups in the country.
Friday, January 10 marks Working Journalists Day, which has been celebrated in Turkey since 1961 when unions won a victory in a struggle against media bosses for independence and attacks on their rights.
But nearly 60 years later, journalists warn that the situation has deteriorated, with a third of the world’s total jailed media workers in Turkish prisons.
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI