Gökhan Biçici is a Turkish reporter and was one of the most active reporters of the 2013 anti-government Gezi Park protests in Istanbul
Each week, Mapping Media Freedom project verifies violations against the media. Here are five reports that give us cause for concern
Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn politically motivated trial
The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints
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
Blogger and human rights activist Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has been in prison in Bahrain since 2010
Sport for Rights coalition expresses its relief over the release of 15 political prisoners in Azerbaijan.
“My job is to make good art,” said Belgian artist Kris Verdonck. “I have no interest in being deliberately offensive or provocative.”
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’s government and courts have demonstrated their unwillingness to adhere to basic values on press freedom and media pluralism