Thread by @StefSimanowitz

1/. #WorldPressFreedomDay  is on 3 May

In 2016, @amnesty, @RSF_en, @article19europe, @hrw, @IndexCensorship, @CPJ_Eurasia & set up the @FreeTurkeyMedia campaign

For 5 years, journalists around the world have shown solidarity for their jailed colleagues.

2/. "Journalists who used to observe court cases from the press gallery, now watch them from the dock"

Some of #Turkey's most respected journalists – equivalents of @camanpour @mehdirhasan @andersoncooper - are exiled, facing investigations or in jail. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

3/. Stifling a nation’s media is a willful act of self-harm that we, as journalists, will keep writing about 'til the day they take away our pens

Let's mobilize for Turkish journos like we did when 3 @AlJazeera journos were jailed in Egypt in 2013 #WPFD2021 #WorldPressFreedomDay

4/. To mark #WorldPressFreedomDay @FreeTurkeyMedia invited people to tweet their cartoons using the #FreeTurkeyMedia hashtag

Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists #WPFD21 #WorldPressFreedomDay @channeldraw @MartinRowson @BellBelltoons

5/. "There are no journalists in prison in Turkey convicted for what they write," #Erdogan's senior advisor, @Gulnuray tells @stephensackur

Say what?!

Turkey is the one of world's biggest jailer of journalists #FreeTurkeyMedia #WorldPressFreedomDay #WPFD

6/. "The govt controls 90% of the national media & uses regulatory bodies to eliminate critics"

Turkey ranks 153rd in @RSF_en’s World Press Freedom Index, sandwiched btw Belarus & Rwanda

On #WorldPressFreedomDay  @FreeTurkeyMedia will renew their calls

7/. "You can imprison me but you cannot keep me in prison. Because, like all writers, I have magic. I can pass through walls with ease.” Ahmet Altan.

Turkey is among the world’s biggest jailer of journalists
#WorldPressFreedomDay
#JournalismIsNotACrime