The latest police raid on pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi raises questions about the future of independent media in Turkey and underlines the disproportionate pressure on Kurdish media in the country as well as irregularities in the legal system. On March 28, Özgürlükçü Demokrasi’s central office in Istanbul and the building of printing press Gün Matbaa, […]

By BARIŞ İNCE / BirGün editor-in-chief Barış İnce on how independent journalism can stay alive in Turkey

The undersigned international press freedom groups call on Turkish authorities to immediately release the 12 printworkers and staff arrested on March 28 at the premises and print works of the newspaper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi and the further 15 staff taken into custody after home raids on the morning of March 29, 2018. Authorities must also restore […]

Following his release from 495 days pretrial detention talks to IPI about his hopes for the future of Turkey, saying “yes, there is hope in Turkey.  There are so many people who are striving heart and soul to make this a democratic country… and I believe that everything can be achieved, from a democratic point […]