Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn politically motivated trial
CATEGORY: Turkey
Turkey: Media freedom in crisis
The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints
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.
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.
İhsan Yılmaz: No more genuine elections in Turkey
This column was originally submitted to Today’s Zaman, but was rejected by the new management. Ihsan Yilmaz was a columnist for Today’s Zaman.
Nicole Pope: A lack of free media allows Turkish authorities to control the narrative
Today’s Zaman columnist Nicole Pope’s final column was rejected by the new management of the paper.
Kaya Genç: On “coup plots”, journalism trials and Turkey’s need for a proper dissensus
The modern crisis in Turkey’s journalistic freedoms began in 2008. Index on Censorship magazine’s Kaya Genc revisits the “coup cases” that ended up turning Turkish journalism into a field of feuds and hostilities