It’s the 17th annual World Poetry Day, which was first declared by Unesco in 1999 to help meet the world’s aesthetic needs by promoting the reading and writing of poetry
World Poetry Day: Seamus Heaney’s love of language
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
#IndexAwards2016: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has not let prison silence him
Blogger and human rights activist Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has been in prison in Bahrain since 2010
Political prisoners released in Azerbaijan
Sport for Rights coalition expresses its relief over the release of 15 political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
From nudity to “a political tsunami”: artistic freedom debated in Greece
“My job is to make good art,” said Belgian artist Kris Verdonck. “I have no interest in being deliberately offensive or provocative.”
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.