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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On July 22, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Turkey-based Media Law Studies Association (MLSA) held a joint panel on the Turkey Free Expression Trial Monitoring Final Report, which was published in March 2020 and highlights the results of IPI and MLSA’s year-long programme monitoring the trials of journalists and others prosecuted in Turkey […]