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.
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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An ironic tale of press freedom: Turkey
By PELİN ÜNKER / “There are a few journalists who can speak to the truth, but no one wants to hear them.”
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Nedim Türfent: ‘No hope’ for domestic legal recourse in Turkey
By NEDİM TÜRFENT / Jailed journalist calls on Europe not to bargain with ‘humanity’s most fundamental values’
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