Hearing Overview Date: October 16, 2018 Court: Bitlis 2. High Criminal Court Defendant(s) and status: Uğur Yılmaz (jailed) Charges: Terrorist propaganda, membership in a terrorist organization Hearing Number: 1 International Observers: Trial Monitor: Deniz Tekin Related Hearings: Case Background [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today condemned the arrests of several journalists during police raids in Istanbul and Diyarbakir, Turkey, in the early hours of October 9. According to information gathered by IPI, at least six journalists were detained: Abdurrahman Gök, Kibriye [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for the immediate release of Turkey journalist Metin Duran, who is being held at Sincan prison in Ankara despite having suffered a crippling heart attack and stroke. IPI also urged Turkey’s Constitutional Court to evaluate a pending appeal on Duran’s case without delay. Duran, a newspaper and radio [...]
The İzmir Journalists Association awarded its 2018 Press Freedom Prize to the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, at a ceremony on September 7. The award was accepted on behalf of the IPI network by Kadri Gürsel, a renowned journalist and chair of IPI’s Turkey National Committee. [...]
Zur deutschen Version The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, unequivocally condemns the arrest of Austrian journalist Max Zirngast by the Turkish authorities and demands that he be released immediately. “This high-handed action of the Turkish government is an assault on press freedom and a gross violation [...]
By ÇINAR LİVANE ÖZER / Only pre-approved questions welcomed at government press conferences
On July 31, 2018, the director and editor-in-chief of Afrika, an independent political newspaper in Northern Cyprus, were surprised by a knock on the door from Northern Cypriot police, asking them to respond to a case filed against the paper by Turkish prosecutors in Ankara. Editor-in-Chief Şener Levent and the Director Ali Osman Tabak [...]
By VEYSEL OK / Technical failures exacerbate questions of fair trial raised by SEGBİS system
By NIMET ÖLMEZ / Reporters held hundreds of miles from trial location, denied right to appear before judge in person
Türkçesi için tıklayınız. Seda (Seher) Taşkın, a journalist for Turkey’s Mezopotomya News Agency who has been held in pretrial detention for over six months, appeared before a court on July 2, 2018 for the second hearing in a case brought for her news articles and reporting from eastern Turkey. Taşkın was arrested at her [...]