Kurdish Human Rights Project
Telephone Walter Jayawardene, Resources and Communications Coordinator or Mustafa Gündoğdu, Turkey and Iraq Desk Officer at +44 (0) 207 405 3835
10 July 2007
Press Release: For immediate release
KHRP Fact-Finding Delegation Conducts Diyarbakır Press Conference
On 7 July at 1.30pm KHRP, BHRC, Index on Censorship, Article 19 and University of Limerick held a press conference for Kurdish and Turkish television, radio and print media at the Southeast Media Society in the Kurdish province of Diyarbakır, south-east Turkey.
The delegation, headed by KHRP Advisory Board Member Louise Christian, gave an hour-long briefing to the media about its preliminary findings from their current mission to the region investigating ‘Freedom of Media in Turkey’.
Commenting on the mission, KHRP Executive Director Kerim Yildiz stated on Friday: “the continuing restrictions placed on the media in Turkey, particularly Kurdish and other minority media, silence the voice of considerable sections of Turkish society. Much progress remains to be made for true media freedom to be achieved in Turkey. This fact-finding mission is an opportunity to pinpoint some of the main obstacles faced by diverse media institutions in Turkey, so that recommendations for meaningful steps towards a fully independent and inclusive media can be made.”
KHRP is closely monitoring the delegation’s progress, and a report of the fact-finding mission will be made available later this summer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Walter Jayawardene/ Mustafa Gündoğdu
Kurdish Human Rights Project
11 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1DH
Tel: 020 7405 3835
khrp@khrp.org www.khrp.org
Kurdish Human Rights Project is an independent, non-political human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all people in the Kurdish regions. It is a registered charity, founded and based in London
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