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Index calls the re-arrest of novelist Ahmet Altan “arbitrary and cruel”

 Turkish authorities re-arrested the internationally known Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan just one week after his release from more than three years in detention. Index on Censorship and 24 other NGOs say that his re-arrest, on 12 November, was an extraordinarily low blow in a case that has been marked by political interference and arbitrariness from […]
2019-11-21

Free speech and human rights organisations call for Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and other journalists to be released

 Ahead of the second hearing in the retrial of Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and four other journalists and media workers, free speech organisations call for all detained defendants to be released and for the charges to be dropped
2019-11-04

Ahmet Altan: I am not your defendant

 Ahmet Altan is one of over 150 journalists who is in detention in Turkey.
2017-10-05

Europe must not abandon the Altans and Turkey’s other jailed journalists

 Two of Turkey's most prominent writers, brothers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan, were sentenced to life in prison on Friday 16 February 2018.
2018-02-20

Mehmet Altan: The law or law of the enemy?

 Mehmet Altan is an academic economist, journalist, and author of over 25 books.
2017-10-06

Turkey: After nine months in detention, Altans face court on 19 June

 Nine months. That's how long brothers Ahmet and Mehmet Altan have been in pre-trail detention in Turkey. Prosecutors are demanding multiple life sentences for the brothers, who will face their first day in court on 19 June.
2017-05-08

A black day for press freedom and justice in Turkey

 Index on Censorship strongly condemns Turkey’s sentencing of six defendants -- including journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan and Nazli Ilcak -- to aggravated life sentences.
2018-02-16

Turkey: Six journalists remain in prison while lawyers expelled from court

 Turkish journalists Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan’s defence attorneys were forced to leave the courtroom as their clients stood trial accused of taking part in Turkey’s failed 2016 coup
2017-11-13

Editor’s letter: All hail those who speak out

 Rachael Jolley introduces the autumn 2020 issue of Index on Censorship magazine, which looks at how and why our freedoms disappear and those who are willing to stand up for them
2020-09-17

Turkey: Press freedom violations August 2019

 There were 18 incidents in Turkey in August 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project.
2019-09-17

Contents: Border forces: how barriers to free thought got tough

 The autumn 2019 edition of Index on Censorship magazine looks at how border controls round the world have got tougher and are proving barriers to free expression
2019-09-12

UN should address Turkey’s crackdown against journalists

 Eighteen international organisations have written to the UN Human Rights Council to ask that it address the Turkish government’s repressive campaign against freedom of expression
2019-09-03