Escalating pressure on media has significantly impacted journalists’ ability to report on matters of public interest
Turkey: Increased pressure on journalists jeopardises public interest
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Coalition calls on Turkey to protect press freedom
Representatives of groups dedicated to press freedom and free expression find that pressure on journalists operating in Turkey has severely escalated in the period between parliamentary elections held June 7 and the upcoming elections.
Joint international emergency press freedom mission
Leading watchdogs to visit Istanbul, Ankara next week to visit Turkey ahead of election
Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink on her recent deportation from Turkey
The top of Frederike Geerdink’s blog, Kurdish Matters, still reads: ‘The only foreign journalist based in Diyarbakir’. The Dutch reporter was the only foreign journalist in Turkish Kurdistan until 9 September 2015 when she was deported from the country
Award-winning Turkish journalist charged with ‘insulting’ Turkey’s President
Index condemns decision by Turkish prosecutors to charge Yavuz Baydar for “insulting” Turkish president
Turkey releases two Vice News journalists, must free third
The release of Vice News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, who are British, is welcome news. However, Mohammed Ismael Rasool, an Iraqi colleague who had been acting as a translator and fixer, remains in detention.
Free expression groups welcome release of Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury
English PEN, PEN American Center, PEN International and Index on Censorship are relieved that VICE News journalists Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury have been released after six days in detention
Jodie Ginsberg: Terror laws are used to “stifle” media
The UK government should look to what is happening to free expression in Egypt and Turkey before broadening terrorist laws to include those who “spread hate”.
UK Foreign Office issues statement on arrests
Freedom of expression charities have written to UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond urging the UK to speak out publicly in defence of freedom of expression following the arrest of two British journalists in Turkey under terror legislation.
5 countries using anti-terror legislation to muzzle journalists
The anti-terror charges against reporters for Vice News in Turkey are not isolated. In recent years, a number of countries have used broad anti-terror laws to restrict the freedom of the press.