TURKEY

Turkish writers need to "hold people in power" to accountTurkish author and journalist Kaya Genç answers questions from the Index youth advisory b...02 Apr 2020 NEWS

Charge, attack, restrict: The main ways Turkey silenced journalists in 2019The three most frequently used means of targeting journalists in Turkey in 2019, according...15 Jan 2020 NEWS

Monitoring and Advocating for Media Freedom: Policy recommendations for Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Turkey and UkraineGovernments and the EU must take a stronger stand for media freedom, a new Index report on...02 Dec 2019 REPORT

Turkey: Press freedom violations October 2019There were 10 incidents in Turkey in October 2019 recorded by Index's monitoring project....28 Nov 2019 MEDIA FREEDOM

This Week at Index: Calls for immediate release of re-arrested authorRestrictions on the media were once something seen as a problem for other countries but no...21 Nov 2019 NEWS

Index calls the re-arrest of novelist Ahmet Altan “arbitrary and cruel"Turkish authorities re-arrested the internationally known Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan jus...21 Nov 2019 STATEMENT

Turkey Uncensored

Turkey Uncensored is an Index on Censorship project to publish a series of articles from censored Turkish writers, artists and translators.

Cases against Academics for Peace have become emblematic of the attacks on freedom of expression in TurkeyOn 26 July 2019, Turkey’s highest court brought new hope to Turkish academics when it ru...28 Aug 2019 ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Stories of Justice: If you are the 'other' in Turkey, you should know that you carry death in your pocketJournalist Nedim Turfent shares his thoughts in justice in Turkey: As one of the “others...03 Jul 2019 TURKEY UNCENSORED

Elif Akgül on the Turkish “virtual patrol squads” going after Kurdish social media usersAlready known as the biggest prison for journalists, Turkey is increasingly jailing social...24 Jan 2019 TURKEY UNCENSORED

Project Exile: Turkey's Dündar free in exile, still threatenedCan Dündar isn't easily silenced. The outspoken Turkish columnist and editor has been fir...14 Jan 2019 GLOBAL JOURNALIST

In Turkey, dismissed academics nurture knowledge off campusProfessors in Mersin and Eskişehir have responded to their dismissals by creating their o...14 Dec 2018 TURKEY UNCENSORED

Turkey: Whitewashing the police, one sentence at a timeReporter Seda Taşkın, who works for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, was sentenc...14 Nov 2018 TURKEY UNCENSORED

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Index calls the re-arrest of novelist Ahmet Altan “arbitrary and cruel"
21 Nov 2019STATEMENT

Free speech and human rights organisations call for Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and other journalists to be released
04 Nov 2019STATEMENT

Turkey urged to halt its assault on media freedom and civil society
18 Sep 2019STATEMENT

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Turkish journalists facing unprecedented surge of physical assaults
25 Jul 2019REPORT

Turkey: Art in troubled times
10 Oct 2016REPORT

International organisations condemn crackdown on freedom of expression in Turkey
06 Sep 2016REPORT

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