CATEGORY: Turkey

Turkey and Thailand: Two elections, different outcomes

by Katie Dancey-Downs | 19 May 23

One poll remains deadlocked while another has seen the population vote for a change of direction

Turkey’s elections: “No rule of law anymore”

by Jemimah Steinfeld | 11 May 23

The country’s human rights landscape has disintegrated since Erdogan took over in 2003

Contents – Modi’s India: The Age of Intolerance

by Index on Censorship | 26 Apr 23

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Journalists battle for truth after Turkish earthquakes

by Evin Baris Altintas | 17 Mar 23

Since February’s earthquakes, free speech NGO the Media and Law Studies Association has been monitoring attacks on journalists in Turkey. The results are very concerning

The silence after the earthquake in northwestern Syria is deafening

by Rizik Al-Abi | 17 Feb 23

Bahar al-Assad is using the natural disaster that has killed thousands to launder his reputation internationally while ordinary Syrians suffer

Turkey’s devastating earthquake is no excuse to grab rights

by Ruth Anderson | 10 Feb 23

Erdogan’s state of emergency must not last longer than is absolutely necessary to deliver a humanitarian response to the disaster

The shock waves from Turkey’s Twitter restriction

by Katie Dancey-Downs | 09 Feb 23

Criticism of the Turkish government in the wake of this week’s deadly earthquakes led to the blocking of the social media platform

Iran protests: “Mahsa” Amini does not exist

by Marnie Duke | 08 Feb 23

The name of the woman murdered by Iran’s “morality police” was Jina Amini but Kurds in the country cannot use their real names, says British-Kurdish writer and organiser Elif Sarican

“Imagine the conversation between Bolsonaro and Erdogan”

by Ruth Anderson | 16 Sep 22

Protests during mourning for Queen Elizabeth have been distasteful but not illegal. How should we express our feelings about some of the guests attending Monday’s state funeral?

Kurdish journalists arrested as Turkey flexes its muscles

by Mumtaz Murat Kok | 07 Jul 22

Journalists in Turkey are once again being targeted in one of the country’s largest Kurdish-majority cities, explains a director from the Media and Law Studies Association

Contents – The battle for Ukraine: Artists, journalists and dissidents respond

by Index on Censorship | 22 Jun 22

The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around...