Regional chairs, parliamentary candidates and official representatives of five major political parties in Turkey committed to reversing their country’s dramatic downward slide in press freedom during meetings with the International Press Institute (IPI) last week. IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford met in Istanbul last Friday with representatives of the secular Republican People’s Party [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 18 other leading international press freedom and freedom of expression groups in calling on the winner of Turkey's June 24 presidential election to prioritize restoring press freedom during his or her term. The full letter follows below. To the future president of Turkey: Your term starts in [...]
On June 7 to 8, 2018, ARTICLE 19, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) observed the fifth hearing in the case against 11 journalists and columnists writing for Zaman newspaper at the Serious Crimes Court in Istanbul. The journalists face various coup or terror-related charges, with five facing aggravated life [...]
By TUĞBA TEKEREK / In exclusive interviews, journalists share the realities of working for Turkey’s many government-influenced media
In late April 2018, journalists and staff members at Cumhuriyet, Turkey’s oldest newspaper, were forced to watch as 17 of their colleagues were tried and convicted on anti-terror charges at Silivri detention facility. One of those observers was Cumhuriyet journalist Mine Söğüt, who writes for the paper’s political section. The International Press Institute (IPI) [...]
More than 29 human rights, cultural and film organizations condemn in an open letter the prosecution of Turkish documentary filmmakers Çayan Demirel and Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and ask for the charges against them to be dropped immediately. May 28, 2018 Numan Kurtulmuş Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of [...]
After a trial lasting 17 months, with independent journalism in the dock, Cumhuriyet journalists and executives were sentenced to between 2 and 8 years.
By BARIŞ ALTINTAŞ / Kurdish reporter faces up to 15 years in prison for journalistic work
May 12 marks the two-year anniversary of the detention of Kurdish photo-journalist Nedim Türfent. Nedim was covering news stories near Diyarbakır in 2016 after the Turkish-Kurdish peace process had broken down and the Turkish army was waging an offensive in the cities of Sur, Cizre and Diyarbakır. His article for shuttered DİCLE news agency [...]
Türkçesi için tıklayınız. After 17 months of judicial proceedings and a collective total of almost 10 years of pretrial detention, the trial of journalists and staff with Turkey’s secular daily Cumhuriyet newspaper ended on April 25, 2018, with three acquittals, the separation of two cases, and 14 inordinately harsh custodial sentences ranging from [...]