A Turkish journalist faces more than 23 years in prison on charges of “insulting public officials over their duties” for her report alleging that top judicial officials were able to buy discounted residences from a public real estate company. Daily Cumhuriyet reporter Canan Coşkun reported claims that a lottery to select homebuyers for a housing project in […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Executive Board today called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his supporters in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to immediately halt a disingenuous campaign of vilification against the Doğan Media Group and its daily newspaper Hürriyet that has raged this week. The president and his […]

A proposal by Turkish officials to prohibit critical media from using state satellite broadcasting infrastructure just as the country is nearing general elections would amount to censorship, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Turkish media reported that Ankara public prosecutor Serdar Coşkun, head of the Bureau for Crimes against the Constitutional Order, wrote to […]

Turkish journalists marked World Press Freedom Day on Sunday with a march calling for people to “stand up for journalism”, saying that the fight for press freedom is “the struggle of every citizen that misses a free and democratic Turkey”. “[F]reedom is the oxygen of journalism, and free journalism is the assurance of democracy”, prominent […]