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 [...]
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 [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 9 other international media freedom organisations calling on Turkey to act upon the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and free journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay. March 22, 2018 – Turkey should immediately implement the judgments of the European Court of Human [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the rights to liberty and security in the cases of journalist and academic Mehmet Altan and political scientist and journalist Şahin Alpay had been violated. The court also ordered the Turkish state to pay the applicants EUR 21,500 each in compensation. Today’s [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. International Press Institute (IPI) was disappointed today in the decision of continuing detention for defendant Akın Atalay. The trial against Turkish opposition daily Cumhuriyet was adjourned at the end of this 7th hearing to be heard again from 24 to 27 April, when verdicts are expected. In today’s proceedings Akın Atalay [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız In a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI), Can Dündar, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet and founder of the online broadcasting site Özgürüz.com, highlighted his concerns over further censorship of free speech in Turkey by a law soon to come before parliament that would introduce strictly monitored licences [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release on bail of two of its members in Turkey, Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and investigative journalist Ahmet Şık, but emphasizes the damage that their unjust pretrial detention and other failings of the judicial process have caused to press freedom in the country. IPI [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız On Friday, March 9, International Press Institute (IPI) observers will attend the sixth hearing of the trial against journalists with Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper in Istanbul. While several defendants in the case were previously released on bail, investigative journalist Ahmet Şık and Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu – both IPI members – remain in pre-trial detention on charges of “aiding a [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız. In an interview with the International Press Institute (IPI) last week (see above video), leading Turkish lawyer Veysel Ok highlighted the psychological importance to detained journalists of trial monitoring in Turkey by human rights groups and stressed the need to attend cases outside Istanbul. Ok, whose clients include recently freed German journalist Deniz [...]
Türkçe için tıklayınız Yesterday, IPI quoted the academic and journalist Mehmet Altan from his defence statement given on Tuesday when he said, “If the rule of law were upheld, I would not have gone through any of what I am going through. I am here because the rule of law has been destroyed.” Today, with [...]