Türkçesi için tıklayınız Members of the International Press Institute (IPI) global Executive Board today released a statement condemning last week’s sentencing of Executive Board member Kadri Gürsel, along with more than a dozen of Gürsel’s colleages at Turkey’s secular Cumhuriyet newspaper, including several IPI members, to prison. The full statement can be found below. As members of the IPI […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today joined a coalition of international press freedom organizations in condemning the prison sentences given to 14 journalists and staff members of Turkey’s secular Cumhuriyet newspaper. Those sentenced in the case include IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel as well as IPI […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned a court decision sentencing 14 journalists and staff members with Turkey’s secular daily Cumhuriyet newspaper to prison on charges of providing support to terrorist groups. Defendants received prison terms ranging from two to eight years, expected to be shortened due to time served. The journalists sentenced are also […]

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, will monitor the seventh and final hearing in the criminal trial against more than a dozen journalists and staff members of the independent Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet on spurious terrorism-related charges. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford, who […]