by TurkeyPurge | Mar 17, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, has sent a letter, accompanied by his drawings, to the Kronos online news outlet sharing his reflections on the layout of the courtroom in which he was given aggravated life sentence. Jailed...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 29, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Fevzi Yazıcı, a former designer for the now-defunct Zaman newspaper and a member of the US-based International Society for News Design (SND) who was jailed as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown on the media, said in a letter to his colleagues that he...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 2, 2017 | Hate Crime
Famous fashion designer Barbaros Şansal was beaten up by an angry mob who gathered at an Istanbul Airport tarmac in protest of a controversial video Şansal posted on the New Year’s Eve, late on Monday. The protesters, turned out to be employees of Turkish Ground...
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