As the Republic of Turkey celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023, last year also marked a year of investigations, detentions, lawsuits, arrests, violence and self-censorship for Turkey’s journalists. According to data from the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2023, there were more than 300 cases of journalists on trial in Turkey. At least 37 different [...]
This article is part of Turkey Dispatches, a special IPI series on press freedom and the realities of practicing journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey’s journalists and those who defend them. I’ve been working on stories about migration and refugees for eight years since I moved [...]
This article is part of Turkey Dispatches, a special IPI series on press freedom and the realities of practicing journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey’s journalists and those who defend them. Peace journalism is one of the constructive ways to approach news. In the early 2000s [...]
On the 17th anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists, and media executives for press freedom, condemns the continued impunity in the case and calls on the Turkish authorities to deliver justice. On January 19, 2007, Dink was shot in broad daylight [...]
The judicial harassment of journalists in Turkey continued in 2023. Over the course of the year, 207 journalists faced trial and at least 22 of them were sentenced to prison or fined, according to International Press Institute (IPI) data. Meanwhile, the cycle of never-ending harassment moves into 2023 with eighty-two percent of open cases adjourned [...]
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Organized by the International Press Institute (IPI) Turkey National Committee and co-hosted by Galatasaray University on its campus in Istanbul on November 24, 2023, IPI’s third annual Turkey Media Symposium entitled "AI and Media: Navigating the Revolution" will bring together a new generation of young journalists and journalism students from across Turkey with international and local experts as well as [...]
The increase in the use of social media on a global scale continues to change and transform our relationship with the news. While local, national, and international news organizations continue to operate into new social media platforms/tools gradually, journalists at the same time are building different news flows for their audiences through their own social [...]
This article is part of Turkey Dispatches, a special IPI series on press freedom and the realities of practicing journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey’s journalists and those who defend them. “Who is Turkey's foremost journalist?” Although we don't have a common answer to this question, [...]
As the Turkish Constitutional Court reviews the constitutionality of the "disinformation offence”, today on 8 November, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partner organisations reiterate their call for the annulment of Article 217/A of the Turkish Penal Code and related legal amendments passed in October 2022 that undermine international standards on the [...]