“My main objection is why the newspaper needs such a campaign,” writes Erkan's Field Diary in response to a recent “Freedom Train” campaign started by the Hürriyet newspaper to draw attention to human rights in Turkey.
- Countries:
- Turkey
- Topics:
- Human Rights, Media
- Languages:
- English
Send this by E-mailOne Response to
“Turkey: Freedom Train”
Join the conversation
Recent Articles also in Middle East & North Africa »
- › Jordan: Fighting Corruption, New York, and the Economic Crisis
- › Bahrain: The pleasures and perils of studying abroad
- › Egypt: We are All Laila
- › Moroccans for Obama?
- › Tunisia: National Day for Freedom of Blogging on November 4
Recent Links also in Middle East & North Africa »
#
The Muscati from Oman writes about traffic congestion in his country concluding that traffic “is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.”
Other GV sites
GV Projects
Recent Comments
Pakistani Bloggers on the McCain-Obama Debate
- If history is any guide, it can be fairly safely predicted that the a Democratic administration...
Brazil: The Black President Before Obama
- I am deeplymoved by the exhierating pride from my people in Brasil for Sen.Barack Obama, This i...
This site is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
Please read our attribution policy.
Sponsors
| Korea content supported by |
 |
Japan content supported by |
 |
Muhammad Karim13 posts 
J. Nambiza Tungaraza17 posts 
Nicholas Laughlin148 posts 
Jon Gosier1 posts 
Danica Radovanovic2 posts 
Steve Sharra14 posts 
Mong Palatino511 posts 
Juliana Rotich89 posts 
Chris Salzberg290 posts 
Tharum Bun34 posts 
Mohammad Azraq5 posts 
Nermeen Edrees2 posts
Dear Deborah, today I learnt that Amnesty International’s Turkey Branch participated this freedom train project. I have no objection to ask for support from corporate business circles. But at this Turkey’s critical moment, Amnesty International people shouldn’t have cooperated with this notariously nationalist and statist newspaper. AI is one of the few international NGOs I really respect. Now this act is a blog to my beliefs…