Journalists' association

Members of the Turkish parliament in session at the Grand National Assembly in Ankara, 2 January 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/STR

The law was prepared by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP and its far-right partner, the Nationalist Movement Party, MHP.

The Public Prosecutor's Office in the Black Sea province of Rize has launched an investigation into five suspects from the Medipol Başakşehir football team in connection with an assault on two journalists following a game with Çaykur Rizespor a day earlier, Doğan News Agency has reported.

From the far end corner of a hotel conference room packed with young journalists and journalism students from various parts of the country, I was observing with great excitement a course on data journalism when a young colleague gently whispered to my ear, "Sorry, I have just heard the was a blast on ?stiklal Avenue [in Istanbul]."

The Mayor of Belgrade has apologised to journalists who had their equipment confiscated when they were trying to question him.

A statement released by the Journalists' Association of Serbia reported that the Mayor said the incident happened after a group of unknown people approached him during talks with a contractor at the Belgrade Waterfront site, saying they were journalists.

Members of the Journalists' Plenum, which mainly unites independent and anti-government reporters in Macedonia, have condemned Vice Prime Minister Pesevski for attacking the owner of a controversial news portal and have called on him to resign.

Mainstream TV broadcasters and newspapers have hotly denied the findings of a research paper, "Public Money in Media Space", by the Journalists' Association, ZNM, which claims the government spent 7 million euro on advertisements in only three months in 2014.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Many Serbian-language media in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) could soon be closed as they do not have enough support of donors from the international community, or from Belgrade, participants of a debate said in Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday.

Journalists' association predicts that changes in legislation now before parliament, privatising the sector by 2015, will result in a sharp drop in the number of outlets remaining in business.

"This time next year half of the journalists will be jobless," Jelka Jovanovic, of the Independent Association of Serbian Journalists, NUNS, told BIRN.