Category Archives: Media Watch

10 Dec
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Perincek vs Switzerland is post-colonialism vs post-9/11-ism

by Tal Buenos * Freedom of expression has already won the day in Perinçek versus Switzerland thanks to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to reverse the Swiss criminalization of Doğu Perinçek’s expressed view of the ...

02 Dec
0

Sydney : Bomber lives among us now

by Mark Buttler and Anthony Dowsley A man convicted of a terrorist bombing in Melbourne 20 years ago can never be deported for his crime. Levon Demirian was a key figure in the 1986 bombing of the Turkish consulate in ...

01 Dec
0

ASIO hears of terror attack on radio news

When Armenian terrorists tried to blow up the office of the Turkish consulate-general in Melbourne in 1986, the first the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) knew of it was a radio news broadcast. A 1987 cabinet document, released by the ...

01 Dec
0

Pope Francis pays his respect to Ataturk at his first Turkey visit

Pope Francis, the religious leader of the world’s Catholics visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk soon after his arriving of Turkey. Accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Ankara’s Deputy Governor Mehmet Ali Ulutaş, Pope Francis laid a ...

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