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Freedom Dialogues Turkey: Media coverage of violence against women

Also available on: The fourth episode of IPI’s podcast series IPI Freedom Dialogues: Turkey is out now! In this episode of IPI Freedom Dialogues: Turkey, host Cansu Çamlıbel and her guest Ceren Sözeri, an associate professor in the communications department at Galatasaray University and a columnist for the newspaper Evrensel, discuss media language around the […]

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IPI condemns passage of Turkey’s new social media law

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, condemned a new law on social media that passed Turkey’s General Assembly today. The law is poised to greatly expand digital censorship and threaten media freedom. “The Law on the Arrangement of Internet Publication and Combating Crimes […]

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IPI webinar recap: Digital censorship in Turkey

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Turkish National Committee hosted the webinar “Digital Censorship: Can social media be prohibited?” to mark Turkey’s Press Day, July 24, which marks the abolition of official censorship in 1908 during the late Ottoman Empire. The irony, as webinar moderator and noted broadcast journalist Banu Güven said, is that the current […]

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IPI urges Turkey to withdraw repressive social media bill

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on Turkish authorities to withdraw a sweeping new draft bill regulating social media. The bill, which would greatly expand digital censorship in Turkey, was passed by the Justice Committee of Turkey’s parliament today. ‘’The Proposal […]

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