NEWS AND MONITORING
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’s journalists.
Born out of solidarity, new Turkish news platform fights to survive
By BURCU KARAKAŞ / Practising journalism in Turkey has become an existential issue
WhatsApp groups: Another side to censorship in Turkey
By ÇINAR LİVANE ÖZER / Only pre-approved questions welcomed at government press conferences
Analysis: Use of courtroom video link violates Turkey journalists’ rights
By VEYSEL OK / Technical failures exacerbate questions of fair trial raised by SEGBİS system
Trials of Kurdish journalists share same hallmark violations
By NIMET ÖLMEZ / Reporters held hundreds of miles from trial location, denied right to appear before judge in person
‘When this is all over, I will cry my heart out’: Inside Turkey’s pro-govt press
By TUĞBA TEKEREK / In exclusive interviews, journalists share the realities of working for Turkey’s many government-influenced media
Turkey’s İdris Sayılğan: Hopeful, but not a prisoner of hope
By BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ / Kurdish reporter faces up to 15 years in prison for journalistic work
Nedim Türfent: One trial, countless injustices
By MELTEM AKYOL / Turkey journalist describes life in solitary confinement for the ‘crime’ of journalism
Turkey’s independent media: Staying dry at the ‘poolside’
By BARIŞ İNCE / BirGün editor-in-chief Barış İnce on how independent journalism can stay alive in Turkey