A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on life in Turkey under emergency rule.
Semih Poroy: Life under emergency rule
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CATEGORY: Turkey
Memnune Mayda: “Our only child is definitely not a traitor”
The mother of Özkan Mayda, a Turkish photojournalist for the Zaman daily, shares her son’s story.
Semih Poroy: Turkey’s place in the world
A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on Turkey on the international stage.
Ece Temelkuran: What will become of Erdogan’s little clones when he’s gone?
A country’s leadership sets the tone, but can also penetrate the very fabric of the public’s existence igniting a metamorphosis that creates political clones
Turkey’s deteriorating freedom of expression and media freedom
Index on Censorship, PEN International, ARTICLE 19 and 65 organisations are deeply concerned by the continuous deterioration of freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey
Turkey: Bans on Kurdish arts festivals spark solidarity actions
Arts organisation Siyah Bant examines how emergency rule has affected artistic expression in Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey
Learn from Turkey: Resistance can’t just end at “No”
Writer Ece Temelkuran warns global movements to learn from the example of her homeland.
Dim hopes for 2017, but we’ll keep up the struggle for a free world
Journalist Yavuz Baydar writes about this hopes for Turkey’s journalists in 2017
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe.
Turkey: Pro-government newspapers rewarded with state-sponsored advertising
Imprisoned journalists make headlines, but the Turkish government has a more insidious method for controlling the media