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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The letter below was sent by IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel to IPI members on the eve of the four-day final hearing in the trial of over a dozen journalists, including Gürsel, with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. The journalists are charged with terrorism-related offences for their critical coverage of Turkey’s government. Dear Fellow IPI [...]

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI), led by IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford, is in Turkey this week, April 24 to 27, to monitor the final hearing in the criminal trial of journalists and staff with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. We’ll be updating this page daily with key points from the proceedings. See additional [...]

Türkçesi için tıklayınız Seven international and local press freedom groups, including the International Press Institute (IPI), have sent a letter of support to imprisoned Turkish-Kurdish journalist Nedim Türfent, who has been held in solitary confinement in Turkey’s Van Prison for nearly two years. Türfent was convicted in December 2017 on terrorism-related charges for reporting on [...]

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 [...]