The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 9 other international media freedom organisations calling on Turkey to act upon the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and free journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay. March 22, 2018 – Turkey should immediately implement the judgments of the European Court of Human [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the rights to liberty and security in the cases of journalist and academic Mehmet Altan and political scientist and journalist Şahin Alpay had been violated. The court also ordered the Turkish state to pay the applicants EUR 21,500 each in compensation. Today’s [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. International Press Institute (IPI) was disappointed today in the decision of continuing detention for defendant Akın Atalay. The trial against Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet was adjourned at the end of this 7th hearing to be heard again from 24 to 27 April, when verdicts are expected. In today’s proceedings Akın Atalay [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız In a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI), Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet and founder of the online broadcasting site Özgürüz.com, highlighted his concerns over further censorship of free speech in Turkey by a law soon to come before parliament that would introduce strictly monitored licences [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release on bail of two of its members in Turkey, Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and investigative journalist Ahmet Şık, but emphasizes the damage that their unjust pretrial detention and other failings of the judicial process have caused to press freedom in the country. IPI [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız On Friday, March 9, International Press Institute (IPI) observers will attend the sixth hearing of the trial against journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper in Istanbul. While several defendants in the case were previously released on bail, investigative journalist Ahmet Şık and Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu – both IPI members – remain in pre-trial detention on charges of “aiding a [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. In an interview with the International Press Institute (IPI) last week (see above video), leading Turkish lawyer Veysel Ok highlighted the psychological importance to detained journalists of trial monitoring in Turkey by human rights groups and stressed the need to attend cases outside Istanbul. Ok, whose clients include recently freed German journalist Deniz [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız Yesterday, IPI quoted the academic and journalist Mehmet Altan from his defence statement given on Tuesday when he said, “If the rule of law were upheld, I would not have gone through any of what I am going through. I am here because the rule of law has been destroyed.” Today, with [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. Lesen Sie auf Deutsch. The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes a Turkish court’s decision today to release Die Welt Turkey correspondent Deniz Yücel on bail following one year in pre-trial detention in solitary confinement. However, IPI stresses that a full acquittal is necessary for Yücel, who, like many other journalists in [...]
International observers from Article 19, PEN International, RSF and Articolo 21 Associazione 100 Autori, ECPMF, IFJ and IPI are awaiting the court’s verdict this morning in the final hearing of the case against seven defendants among whom are the first writers and journalists to be facing charges relating to involvement in the attempted coup [...]