International Press Institute (IPI) joined the international call in support of Erol Önderoğlu, an IPI member and the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Turkey representative, as well as his two co-defendants, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Ahmet Nesin, ahead of their retrial in Turkey on February 3, 2021, on terrorism-related charges, asking their immediate acquittal. See the [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) commemorates deeply respected Turkish investigative journalist Uğur Mumcu who was assassinated 28 years ago. On January 24, 1993, Mumcu was killed in front of his house in Ankara after a bomb that had been placed in his car exploded. The assassination was claimed by a series of fundamentalist groups. “IPI [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the assault on Orhan Uğuroğlu, a Turkish TV commentator and Ankara correspondent of the conservative Yeniçağ newspaper and Yeniçağ TV. According to news reports, Uğuroğlu was attacked on January 15 in Ankara by three assailants [...]
By AHMET HİLMİ HACALOĞLU / The power of solidarity amid the ongoing press freedom crisis
By ÇİĞDEM TOKER / "If we are talking about a corrupt and unjust mentality within the governing party in general, then this may be seen to prevail in other areas, too."
The International Press Institute (IPI) recently launched the new video reporting series “Journalism under the Shadow of the Pandemic: Turkey”. The project, which features a series of interviews with leading journalists and media experts about the pandemic’s impact on journalism in Turkey, is being carried out by IPI’s Turkey National Committee. The fifth video is [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) recently launched the new video reporting series “Journalism under the Shadow of the Pandemic: Turkey”. The project, which features a series of interviews with leading journalists and media experts about the pandemic’s impact on journalism in Turkey, is being carried out by IPI’s Turkey National Committee. The fourth video interview [...]
Also available on: The 12th episode of IPI’s podcast series IPI Freedom Dialogues: Turkey is out now! In the 12th episode of IPI Freedom Dialogues: Turkey podcast, host Cansu Çamlıbel and her guest Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director for Human Rights Watch (HRW), discussed Turkey’s free expression violations [...]
As the world marks Human Rights Day on December 10, the International Press Institute (IPI) is running a new campaign calling on Turkey and the international community to protect press freedom and let journalists report freely. Newspaper ads in Turkey and Europe this week will highlight the importance of press freedom as a human right. [...]
FULL REPORT MİSYON RAPORU (TÜRKÇE) VOLLSTÄNDIGER BERICHT (DE) Today, the International Press Institute (IPI) published the Report "Turkey’s Journalists on the Ropes" the result of the joint International Press Freedom Mission to Turkey October 6-9, revealing the extent of the crackdown on media freedom and calling for concerted action by the international community to tackle [...]