Courrier international/ Le Soir: Europe: Press Freedom under threat
Europe: Press Freedom under threat
The Belgian writer Thomas Gunzig considers the European Press Freedom Day celebrated this week. "One tends to assume that the press is terrorized in Erythrea, North Korea and Turkmenistan. ... But, the good old methods of violence and intimation are back on home turf too. A few days ago Mehmet Koksal's excellent blog 'Humeur Allochtone' finally drew to a close. And yet this was good investigative journalism, tenacious, courageous, intelligent, free. Nothing but qualities...or defects, according to differing points of view. Mehmet Koksal spoke about everything and everyone, in other words he bothered more than a few, from all political backgrounds, shedding light on double-talk, hypocrisy and cynicism. ... He had followed the recent demonstrations of young Turkish extremists. This cost him a few punches and kicks in front of the American embassy in Europe's capital."
