“Turkey’s Journalists in the Dock: The Judicial Silencing of the Fourth Estate”underscores the depth of Turkey’s now three-year-crackdown on the media despite the Turkish government’s attempts to distract from it.
More than three years since Turkey’s 2016 failed coup and one year after its state of emergency was lifted, the government continues its relentless and pervasive crackdown on civic space, media freedom and dissenting voices.
Representatives of IPI’s secretariat observed four hearings in Istanbul in May 2019. The hearings were part of trials against journalists Hasan Cemal, Çağdaş Erdoğan and Cansu Pişkin, Kemal Karagöz and Kemal Demir