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Groups demonstrate outside Turkey prison in support of Can Dündar, Erdem Gül

Bu yazıyı okumak için tıklayınız. Delegates from a coalition of leading international free expression and press freedom groups travelled to Turkey’s Silivri Prison today to demonstrate support for imprisoned journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, to protest Turkish authorities’ denial of permission to visit to the two journalists, and to call for their release. The […]

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IPI: 2015 one of deadliest years on record for journalists

The year 2015 was one of the deadliest on record for journalists around the world, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, with 108* journalists believed to have died as a direct result of their job and 36 more killed under circumstances that remain murky. IPI added 108 names from 2015 to its Death Watch, […]

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IPI sends letter of support for jailed Cumhuriyet journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI) today issued an open letter of support for imprisoned Turkish journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül, who face life behind bars for revealing evidence purporting to show Turkey secretly sending weapons to Islamist rebel groups in Syria. “You and all journalists who seek to report truth in Turkey face tremendous […]

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IPI joins international call to release Turkish journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and eight other leading media freedom watchdogs, and some 29 public figures from around the globe, in calling on Turkish authorities to immediately release Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the paper’s Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül. The groups made the call as they launched an […]

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