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
Yaşar Yakış: Turkey’s bargain with the EU
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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.
Bassel Khartabil: Four years since arrest of Palestinian-Syrian online freedom activist
Four years have passed since Palestinian-Syrian software developer Bassel Khartabil (aka Bassel Safadi) was arrested in Damascus
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.
The What a Liberty! project visit the Magna Carta
What a Liberty! is a Heritage Lottery funded youth project run by Index on Censorship to create a radical re-imagining of the Magna Carta.
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.
Taiwan: An interview with politician and heavy metal frontman Freddy Lim on music and censorship
Lim recently won a seat in parliament representing the New Power Party and defeating Chinese Nationalist Party member Lin Yu-fang, who had held his seat for 20 years.
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
Speak out on Turkey: As Index petition passes the 2,600 mark, crackdown on press freedom continues
Over a week and 2,611 signatures later, our work denouncing the Turkish authorities for the takeover Zaman
Yavuz Baydar: Bid farewell to journalism, and lose Turkey
Yavuz Baydar writes that Erdogan is driving the final nails into the coffin of journalism in Turkey