The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined eight other leading international press freedom and freedom of expression groups on calling European Union (EU) officials to raise Turkey’s freedom of expression issue during the EU-Turkey high-level political dialogue. The full letter follows below. To the attention of: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), in partnership with WELT, invites interested members of the public to a networking event and series of panel discussions on November 28, 2018 in Berlin with leading lawyers, journalists and human rights activists from Turkey and Europe. Panellists will examine the media crackdown and the breakdown of the rule of law in […]

By BURCU KARAKAŞ / Practising journalism in Turkey has become an existential issue

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, has written to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron requesting the two leaders to take a firm stance against the imprisonment, intimidation and harassment of journalists in Turkey. In letters sent to the Chancellor […]