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Censorship in Turkey: JinNews website blocked

Posted on August 14, 2020December 30, 2020 By admin

The website of the news agency JinNews has been blocked in Turkey following a decision by the telecommunications authority.

Repression against the free press in Turkey continues. The AKP/MHP regime has blocked the website of the women’s news agency JinNews. The Turkish Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has blocked JinNews in Turkey nine times in the past.

The all-female agency’s journalists and editors are repeatedly subjected to legal actions and imprisoned. The agency’s use of the images of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan or pictures of fallen members of the women’s defense units YPJ and the description of the attacks on Afrin as an occupation are interpreted as criminal offences.

By eliminating the free press, the Turkish regime is trying to impose a rule over information and thus over public opinion.

According to the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) report fort he month of July, 98 journalists are currently in prison in Turkey while 2 journalists were detained, 3 journalists attacked and 64 journalists stood trial in the month of July.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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