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.
New powers of Turkey’s media watchdog threaten last bastion of free press: The internet
By SELİN UĞURTAŞ / Experts say regulation aims to exert control over independence online media currently outside government’s reach
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The serious business of satire in Turkey
By JENNIFER HATTAM / Political climate generates both inspiration and anxiety for cartoonists and other humourists
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Analysis: Turkish Constitutional Court’s inconsistent stance on press freedom
By HÜRREM SÖNMEZ / Recent contradictory decisions show court’s approach not always in favour of journalists’ rights
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Young Turkish journalists get ready for comeback
By EMRE KIZILKAYA / New network aims to empower Turkey’s journalism graduates
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The Press: Democracy’s Broken Wing
By MURAT SEVİNÇ / Press trials not as a purely judicial matter, but as part of an integral political problem
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