The International Press Institute (IPI) commemorates deeply respected Turkish investigative journalist Uğur Mumcu who was assassinated 28 years ago. On January 24, 1993, Mumcu was killed in front of his house in Ankara after a bomb that had been placed in his car exploded. The assassination was claimed by a series of fundamentalist groups. “IPI […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, is deeply concerned over advertising bans announced by the Turkish government this week on social media platforms including Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest. The bans come after the platforms declined to appoint local representatives under Turkey’s new social […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the assault on Orhan Uğuroğlu, a Turkish TV commentator and Ankara correspondent of the conservative Yeniçağ newspaper and Yeniçağ TV. According to news reports, Uğuroğlu was attacked on January 15 in Ankara by three assailants […]

By AHMET HİLMİ HACALOĞLU / The power of solidarity amid the ongoing press freedom crisis