The International Press Institute (IPI) today endorsed a call by the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) on governments to rethink relations with Turkey in light of ongoing efforts to silence independent media in the country. The ACM, a strategic partner of IPI, urged Caribbean governments to speak out against Turkey’s actions and to hold […]

SEND A LETTER OF HOPE IPI invites colleagues to send a letter of support to the imprisoned journalists. These letters are intended to bring hope to all imprisoned journalists, and to remind them that the commitment of IPI as well as other international organisations to fight for their freedom will remain undeterred. These letters will not only […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called a court’s decision to imprison nine journalists from Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper including IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel an attack on Turkish democracy and the basic values of free society. Authorities had placed the journalists in police detention on Oct. 31 as part of a mass operation against […]

On Monday, 31 October, IPI’s global network yesterday awoke to the news of the arrest of at least 13 journalists at the Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, among them IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel and IPI Member and Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu. Gürsel, Sabuncu and their colleagues are the latest victims of the Turkish government’s […]