Turkey Archives - Index on Censorship

Who is 2025’s Tyrant of the Year?

Choose from our shortlist of 10 authoritarian leaders and vote on who you think has done most to crack down on freedom of expression this year

The awards celebrate those who have had significant impact fighting censorship anywhere in the world

by Connor O'Brien | 12 Sep 2025

Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days

Index rounds up of some of the key stories covering censorship and free expression from the past seven days

Turkish satirical magazine LeMan faces mobs and arrests over a cartoon

Index and other organisations sound alarm over threat of extradition facing the Kurdish writer, journalist and poet

by Ege Dündar | 12 May 2025

Mass youth protests have mobilised a fragmented society into action and enlivened the political opposition

by Kaya Genç | 8 May 2025

With 90% of the country’s media now controlled by the state, it is becoming harder and harder to report independently

by Georgia Beeston | 2 May 2025

With the annual celebration taking place on 3 May 2025, six journalists from around the globe tell Index what press freedom means to them

by Nedim Turfent | 1 May 2025

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, a journalist with experience of imprisonment in Turkey speaks to those who have been arrested repeatedly