Jennifer Hattam

Journalist covering enviro, social, urban issues + art, culture, travel. Available for assignments: jenhattam (at) gmail (dot) com

[Jennifer Hattam @TheTurkishLife]

📣 I'm looking for new journalism assignments, writing or editing gigs, or other work using my communications skills, ideally to make positive social/cultural/environmental impact. Check out what I do and get in touch about projects that might be a match! https://t.co/09fY2ntR5F

[BirGün Daily @BirGunDaily]

Statement from press organisations ahead of the hearing of our reporter İsmail Arı

https://t.co/085aMSVr6B

[Foreign Media Association TR @fma_tr]

FMA joins other media and #pressfreedom groups in calling for the immediate release of BirGün journalist @ismailari_ who has been jailed for more than two months under Turkey's "disinformation law" in connection with his investigative journalism. https://t.co/fbZgv5sW6s

[Emma Sinclair-Webb @esinclairwebb]

LGBTI associations answer the Turkish govt’s latest move to introduce legislation to criminalize LGBT people and restrict gender affirming care 👉🏼: “We will not be packaged away! We are here with pride, we demand to live with dignity!” https://t.co/qXj2KjIXFH

[Hannah Lucinda Smith @hannahluci]

It's publication day! My new book Hinterlands is out today in the UK (next month in the US, Canada and Germany). Thanks to @ProfileBooks and @AsiaLitAgency, and to everyone who has reviewed it so far. Copies available at all good bookshops.

[bianet English @bianet_eng]

Court bans X account of Turkey's oldest newspaper https://t.co/oBUmYNhF1z

[Zeynep Erdim @zeynep_erdim]

An investigative journalism report prepared by the @LHreports and it's Turkish partner @kisadalgamedya focusing on corruption at EU's designated visa company #VFSGlobal, is censored by a court decision in Turkey and removed from all social media platforms.

[Jennifer Hattam @TheTurkishLife]

@LiselHintz @goncatokyol Great news!! Looking forward to it.

[MLSA @mlsaturkey]

MLSA Annul Report released

2025 was one of the most consequential years in MLSA's history — and we have documented it in full.

Our 2025 Annual Report covers a year defined by mass arrests , a surge in pre-trial detentions reaching a six-year high, landmark Constitutional Court rulings, and MLSA's work at every stage of the crisis: in courtrooms, in prisons, before international institutions, and in the press.
https://t.co/pUg8OJ2WM1

[Hannah Lucinda Smith @hannahluci]

My analysis on how the ego ambitions of the new-old leader of Turkey's opposition has taken the party into the wilderness: Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's long walk to nowhere.
https://t.co/p53WEsZcZx

[Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @LouisAFishman1]

Bilgi University, one of Turkey's first private universities, that opened in the late 1990s, was shut down today by a presidential decree with no explanation. It was always a pleasure to visit there, fantastic students and faculty. This really hits hard for many.

[Reuters @Reuters]

A Turkish court effectively ousted the main opposition leader, Ozgur Ozel, annulling the 2023 party congress that elected him chairman. The case was seen as a test of Turkey's shaky balance between democracy and autocracy https://t.co/n133BhHWi0

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

NEW: Under Assad, Syrian triathletes trained without equipment, missed races over visas and shared tracks with soldiers. Now two of them, Ehab Khallouf and Adnan Zaki, are chasing the 2028 LA Olympics, reports @AubinEymard for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/TrItxZ9Sjz

[Jennifer Hattam @TheTurkishLife]

@patyale Lovely! I only made it as far as Gölyazı but the lake is so beautiful

[Tomris Laffly @TomiLaffly]

I received this email, too. My first thought was, “If you aren’t inherently repulsed by the idea of AI touching any part of your writing/reporting (ideation, writing, editing, and all things in between), and need this reminder, then you aren’t a journalist or a writer.

[bianet English @bianet_eng]

Pensioner poverty in Turkey: 9 out of 10 say need to work to stay afloat https://t.co/1psXLbWcZf

[Lisel Hintz @LiselHintz]

I really appreciate journalists’ perspectives on why those interviewed may or may not be quoted.

I say that as someone who had been frustrated after giving long interviews with no quotes but then started studying media. We benefit by knowing each other’s professions better.

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

Beyond all the stuff about editing etc, the reason this is an unreasonable expectation is that reporting is fundamentally a *search* for a story. To report in such a way that you'd never interview someone you didn't quote would require knowing the story ahead of time.

[Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan]

Stay tuned for my next TED Talk, "No, you can't read the article before it's published."

[Olga Khazan ME, BUT BETTER @olgakhazan]

This is a common misunderstanding. We don’t/can’t quote everyone we talk to. You can stop returning calls, but that basically guarantees you’ll never be quoted