“My job is to make good art,” said Belgian artist Kris Verdonck. “I have no interest in being deliberately offensive or provocative.”
From nudity to “a political tsunami”: artistic freedom debated in Greece
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Doğu Ergil: Turkey, the humanitarian crisis and erratic responses
What truly scares Europe in terms a massive influx of “others” who can neither be assimilated nor accommodated is not sufficiently evaluated in Turkey.
Turkey: A long line of press freedom violations
Turkey’s government and courts have demonstrated their unwillingness to adhere to basic values on press freedom and media pluralism
Yaşar Yakış: Turkey’s bargain with the EU
An important step has been taken in Turkey’s painful negotiations with the EU. The country has submitted several proposals to the Turkey-EU summit
Letter: EU must not ignore collapse of media freedom in Turkey
Index and international press freedom organisations issued a joint letter ahead of the upcoming meeting between EU leaders and Ahmet Davutoğlu, Prime Minister of Turkey, to express concern over the collapse of media freedom in Turkey.
#IndexAwards2016: Good Chance Theatre gives refugees a place to be heard
Surrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
Suat Kınıklıoğlu: Europa Europa
Turks who are putting up a brave fight confronting the authoritarianism in this country every day are simply aghast at the show put on in Brussels.
İhsan Yılmaz: No more genuine elections in Turkey
This column was originally submitted to Today’s Zaman, but was rejected by the new management. Ihsan Yilmaz was a columnist for Today’s Zaman.
The What a Liberty! project visit the Magna Carta
What a Liberty! is a Heritage Lottery funded youth project run by Index on Censorship to create a radical re-imagining of the Magna Carta.
Nicole Pope: A lack of free media allows Turkish authorities to control the narrative
Today’s Zaman columnist Nicole Pope’s final column was rejected by the new management of the paper.