Cypriot journalists sweep press freedom awards - 03/27/06

(Cyprus Mail - Friday, March 24, 2006)

TURKISH CYPRIOT journalist Sevgul Uludag and Greek Cypriot journalist and historian Makarios Drousiotis have received the prestigious ‘Press Freedom Award’ from Reporters Without Borders 2005 (Austrian Section).
The award ceremony was held this week at Vienna’s Music House. Sevgul Uludag writes in Yeniduzen and Phileleftheros daily newspapers, as well as in the weekly Cyprus Today and the internet magazine Cockroaches for her research and interviews about the issue of missing persons and mass graves in Cyprus with the relatives of both Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot missing persons. Her books were the first of its kind, where she published the stories from both communities of the island.

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“Kıbrıs’ta sessizlik bölgelerine kapı açtınız, insanları konuşturdunuz...” - 03/22/06

*** Sınır Tanımayan Gazeteciler Örgütü’nün (Reporters Without Frontiers-RSF) Avusturya şubesi tarafından verilen “2005 Basın Özgürlüğü Ödülü” töreninde jüri adına konuşan AGİT Basın Özgürlüğü eski Sorumlusu Freimut Duve:

“Kıbrıs’ta sessizlik bölgelerine kapı açtınız, insanları konuşturdunuz...”

*** RSF Avusturya Şubesi’nin Basın Özgürlüğü Ödülü’nü alan Kıbrıslı gazeteciler Sevgül Uludağ ve Makarios Drusiotis, Viyana Müzik Evi’ndeki törene katılarak Kıbrıs’ta basın özgürlüğüne yönelik durumu anlattılar...

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Cypriot journalists Uludag and Drusiotis get `Press Freedom Award` of RSF Austria - 03/22/06

Cypriot journalists, Sevgul Uludag and Makarios Drusiotis got `2005 Press
Freedom Award` of Reporters Without Borders Austria Section, for their
articles questioning the recent history of Cyprus.
The award ceremony took place on Monday 20th of March, 2006 in Vienna at
the Music House where Uludag and Makarios received their awards. OSCE
former director of Press Freedom, Mr. Duvet, said in the ceremony that the
Cypriot journalists opened gates to the `zones of silence` in Cyprus... He
spoke of the articles of Uludag concerning missing persons and mass graves
in Cyprus, telling of his own experiences of being invited by Desmond Tutu
to attend the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa...
Demet Bilge Ergun from Radikal newspaper also got the Press Freedom Award,
for her articles on violence against women in Turkey...
Uludag's article `How shall we establish the truth?` published in
Hamamboculeri internet magazine in English and ALITHIA in Greek and
Drusiotis's article `My haunted country` published in Politis were
awarded...Drusiotis made a documentary about `Construction of truth`
concerning attacks on Greek Cypriot journalists and activists from the
Greek Cypriot administration after the Annan Plan and this documentary
also was part of his work being awarded. Sevgul Uludag wrote the books
`Cyprus: The Untold Stories` and `Oysters with the missing pearls` in
English, Turkish and Greek and this work was part of the reason why she
was being awarded. Both books deal with the issue of missing persons and
mass graves in Cyprus on both sides. These were interviews with relatives of missing persons published in the Turkish Cypriot daily newspaper YENIDUZEN. Makarios Drusiotis wrote five books on the Cyprus problem concerning the most difficult years of the conflict like `EOKA - The Dark Side` which has been translated into Turkish as well. Currently Uludag writes in Yeniduzen, Phileleftheros and Cyprus Today and Drusiotis is writing in Politis in Cyprus and Eleftherotipia in Greece.

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