Nazire Kalkan Gürsel
Turkish court releases prominent journalist Kadri Gürsel from jail
An Istanbul court ordered the release of veteran journalist Kadri Gürsel on Sept. 25 in the third hearing of the case into critical Turkish daily Cumhuriyet.
While ruling for the release of Gürsel, the Istanbul 27th Heavy Penal Court ruled for the continued arrest of four others including reporter Ahmet Şık and editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu.
Jailed journalist Kadri Gürsel nominated UNESCO's World Press Freedom Prize
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has nominated prominent Turkish journalist Kadri Gürsel, who has been in jail for 116 days, for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
His wife, Nazire Kalkan Gürsel, announced the nomination via her official Twitter account.
Stores championing the sale of special coats for inmates
"Human Landscapes from my Country" is one of the epic masterpieces of Turkey's acclaimed poet Nazım Hikmet, written during the Second World War while Hikmet was serving a 13-year sentence as a political prisoner.
A lot has changed since then, though some things have remained the same, like the sad reality of political prisoners incarcerated for their views.