Since September 1, the International Press Institute (IPI) has been battling a targeted and sustained cyberattack. This attack appears to be in retaliation for our advocacy work on behalf of independent media in Hungary, who have faced a wave of similar attacks since this summer. The attack on IPI began with a series of distributed [...]
A Turkish court has blocked the website of Voice of America’s (VOA) Turkish service after the international broadcaster refused to file a license application as demanded by the Turkish government’s telecommunications regulator, RTÜK, citing a risk of censorship. The regulation requiring online broadcasters to obtain a license from RTÜK went into force on August 1, [...]
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. As journalists, we can work more efficiently by reflecting on our daily tasks. Self-reflection can [...]
The undersigned media freedom, freedom of expression, human rights, and journalists’ organisations strongly condemn the latest incident of judicial harassment against journalist Barış Pehlivan and reiterate calls to the Turkish authorities to respect media freedom. On August 2, journalist Barış Pehlivan was informed via an SMS from the Ministry of Justice that he was expected [...]
The undersigned media freedom, freedom of expression and human rights organizations strongly condemn the detention of T24 editor Sibel Yükler, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) reporters Delal Akyüz and Fırat Can Arslan, bianet editor Evrim Kepenek and freelance journalist Evrim Deniz in Turkey on July 25. While four of these journalists were conditionally released, Arslan was arrested [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) traveled to Diyarbakır, Turkey, in July 2023 to monitor the first hearing of a case in which 17 Kurdish journalists and 1 media worker – 15 of whom are currently in pre-trial detention are charged with “membership in a terrorist organization” and face a prison sentence up to 15 years. [...]
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. While journalism aims to present the facts and inform society, it would be misleading to [...]
The New York Times graphics department is at the forefront of a new genre — spatial investigations — which combine traditional digging, meticulous spatial reporting and highly technical 3D innovation. In this fifth master class organized within the scope of IPI’s Turkey Digital News Accelerator, we host three members of this team — Anjali Singhvi, Mika Gröndahl [...]
The undersigned organisations call on the incoming Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union to place media freedom and human rights front and centre of relations with the newly re-elected Government of Turkey. The May elections, which saw a parliamentary majority for the AKP and its allies and the re-election of Recep Tayyip [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists, and media executives for press freedom, condemns the arrest of TELE1 TV Editor-in-Chief Merdan Yanardağ in Istanbul. Yanardağ was detained after criticizing the detention conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan during a news programme. We call on the Turkish authorities to stop punishing journalists [...]