Turkey Dispatches

Turkey Dispatches is a special series on press freedom and the realities of practising journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey-based journalists.

By EMRE KIZILKAYA / New network aims to empower Turkey’s journalism graduates

By MURAT SEVİNÇ / Press trials not as a purely judicial matter, but as part of an integral political problem

By PELİN ÜNKER / “There are a few journalists who can speak to the truth, but no one wants to hear them.”

By NEDİM TÜRFENT / Jailed journalist calls on Europe not to bargain with ‘humanity’s most fundamental values’

By MEŞALE TOLU / Women journalists face physical and psychological attacks on a daily basis

By BURCU KARAKAŞ / Practising journalism in Turkey has become an existential issue

By ÇINAR LİVANE ÖZER / Only pre-approved questions welcomed at government press conferences

By VEYSEL OK / Technical failures exacerbate questions of fair trial raised by SEGBİS system

By NIMET ÖLMEZ / Reporters held hundreds of miles from trial location, denied right to appear before judge in person

By TUĞBA TEKEREK / In exclusive interviews, journalists share the realities of working for Turkey’s many government-influenced media