New powers of Turkey’s media watchdog threaten last bastion of free press: The internet
By SELİN UĞURTAŞ / Experts say regulation aims to exert control over independence online media currently outside government’s reach
IPI joins international call for release of Turkish journalists Altan, Ilıcak
The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 21 other human rights and freedom of expression organizations in calling on Turkish authorities to release detained Turkish journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak as well as four additional journalists, writers and media workers on trial in the same case. On October 8, the re-trial of Ahmet Altan, Mehmet [...]
Journalists killed and injured amid Turkey-Syria clashes
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, called on Turkey to refrain from attacks that compromise journalist safety following the death and injuries sustained by journalists during the military operation in northern Syria over the week. Saad Al-Ahmad, a reporter for Hawar News Agency [...]
Two journalists arrested after criticism of Turkey’s military action in Syria
The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned Turkey’s arrest of Hakan Demir, online editor for the independent newspaper BirGün, and Fatih Gökhan Diler, managing editor of the news site Diken. The two detentions were part of a wave of arrests targeting critics of Turkey’s military operation across the Syrian border, which started yesterday. Turkish police [...]
Turkish Supreme Court upholds harsh prison sentence for Nedim Türfent
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, expressed profound dismay over today’s decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Cassation upholding a nearly nine-year jail sentence given to journalist Nedim Türfent. Türfent, a Kurdish reporter at the now-banned Dicle News Agency (DİHA), was arrested in [...]
Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report September – 2019
The International Press Institute (IPI) in collaboration with the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), today published the third trial monitoring report on freedom of expression cases in Turkey. This report is part of a programme of monitoring that started in June 2018 and confirms findings of the two earlier reports, published in July and [...]
Turkey reform proposals fall far short of needed change
Proposed legislative changes due to be presented today in Turkey’s Parliament as part of a long-awaited Judicial Reform Strategy (JRS) are inadequate to protect journalists’ rights, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The initial package, first shared by the Justice Ministry with political parties on September 23, proposes changes to 38 articles regarding 15 [...]
Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Report September – 2019
The International Press Institute (IPI) in collaboration with the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA), today published the third trial monitoring report on freedom of expression cases in Turkey. This report is part of a programme of monitoring that started in June 2018 and confirms findings of the two earlier reports, published in July and [...]
Press freedom in Turkey remains in crisis, mission finds
International press freedom groups reported today that press freedom and the rule of law in Turkey remain in crisis despite grounds for very cautious optimism, such as yesterday’s ruling releasing several former Cumhuriyet journalists. Over three days this week, the international press freedom delegation held meetings with journalists, civil society, the judiciary and the authorities [...]
IPI welcomes Turkish court ruling freeing Cumhuriyet journalists
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, welcomes the decision of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Cassation to toss out a lower court ruling and free five former journalists of the newspaper Cumhuriyet who were imprisoned on terrorism-related charges. The ruling also vacated the conviction of [...]