On April 14, after a week of parliamentary debate, the Turkish government passed a new “criminal enforcement” law that is expected to see up to 90,000 inmates released in order to relieve overcrowded prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, an International Press Institute (IPI) review of the law shows that it excludes prisoners sentenced for [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) joins today 23 other international press freedom and freedom of expression groups to call on Turkish authorities to release all journalists and those who were arbitrarily detained as part of the new bill to release prisoners on parole amid COVID-19 pandemic. See the joint statement below. In the early hours [...]
By RUŞEN ÇAKIR / IPI Member and Medyascope editor Ruşen Çakır on journalism and press freedom amid COVID-19
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today demanded that imprisoned journalists not be excluded from the Turkish government’s plan to release thousands of prisoners as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 24, the ruling coalition AKP and MHP submitted [...]
This is the last in a series of four articles exploring the role of the European Court of Human Rights in defending media freedom in Turkey. In this final report, IPI speaks to leading Turkish lawyer Tora Pekin about his role is taking the Cumhuriyet journalists’ cases to the European Court of [...]
In a letter addressed to Rıdvan Duran, the general director of the Public Advertising Agency (BİK), the authority in Turkey responsible for the distribution of state advertising, ten members of the European Parliament called for the immediate end to the public advertising ban that has been imposed on the independent newspaper Evrensel since September 2019. [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today demanded the immediate release in Turkey of six journalists arrested following their reporting of the funeral of a Turkish national intelligence (MIT) agent who died in Libya in February. The journalists are accused of revealing the [...]
This is the third in a series of four articles exploring the role of the European Court of Human Rights in defending media freedom in Turkey. Read other articles here: Media freedom and the European Court of Human Rights Turbulent times: Turkey and European Court of Human Rights The Cumhuriyet trial and [...]
In a letter addressed to Ridvan Duran, the general director of BIK, the authority in Turkey responsible for the distribution of state advertising, 24 press freedom and freedom of expression groups from Europe and Turkey today called for the immediate end to the public advertising ban that has been imposed on the independent newspaper Evrensel [...]
By NEVŞİN MENGÜ / Normally, being a politician means having to reply to journalists’ questions. President Erdoğan thinks otherwise.