“The award goes to all journalists who are prevented from doing their jobs and jailed journalists in the persons of 16 Kurdish journalists who were recently imprisoned,” said the Journalists Association of Turkey.
The Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) gave awards to journalists who could not do their jobs in the persons of 16 Kurdish journalists arrested last month.
This year's winners of the Press Freedom Awards, which have been given since 1989, have been announced.
The “Person Award” was awarded to all jailed journalists who are prevented from doing their jobs, as well as 16 Kurdish journalists who were arrested after they were detained in Amed on June 8 and remained under detention for 8 days.
“The award goes to all journalists who are prevented from doing their jobs and jailed journalists in the persons of 16 Kurdish journalists who were arrested as part of efforts to block citizens' right to receive news and to create monotype journalists and news at a time when next elections are looming: Abdurrahman Öncü, Aziz Oruç, Elif Üngür, İbrahim Koyuncu, Lezgin Akdeniz, Mazlum Doğan Güler, Mehmet Ali Ertaş, Mehmet Şahin, Neşe Toprak, Ömer Çelik, Ramazan Geciken, Remziye Temel, Safiye Alagaş, Serdar Altan, Suat Doğuhan and Zeynel Abidin Bulut,” the TGC said in a statement on Friday.
The "Institutional Award" was given to the association "Resistance and Solidarity Against the Censorship Law" which defies the censorship bill which has been brought up to the agenda of the parliament.
“The TGC gave an award to the Resistance and Solidarity Against the Censorship Law which succeeded in postponing the ratification of the bill which will deepen censorship and self-censorship and aims to silence, intimidate and imprison the social opposition as well as the free press,” the TGC statement said.
The date of the ceremony for the awards will be announced in the coming days.
