The last time Onur Erem and his girlfriend Zehra Doğan, a Turkish artist and journalist, met face-to-face, she was chirpy and seemed happy, he recalls
Turkish artists continue their work in the face of repression
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Elephant in the room: It’s all well and good protecting the far right, but what about everyone else’s rights?
The final performance of my play Elephant was cancelled in Birmingham, bizarrely the same city where, 13 years ago, my play Behzti was closed after protests turned violent
European Court of Human Rights is failing Turkey’s endangered freedom of expression
“My scream for justice has faded away in a bottomless pit”
Censorship gone viral: The cross-fertilisation of repression
Censorship has cross-fertilised and gone viral infecting both democracies and their authoritarian counterparts.
No future without the past
Turkey’s academia witch hunt hits Kurdish studies the most
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram.
Turkey: Journalist Seda Taskın’s trial shines light on massive irregularities
Mezopotamya Agency reporter Seda Taskın is standing trial in a case that has been marred by serious flaws, including ill-treatment
Downing Street protest: Hundreds voice anger ahead of Erdogan visit
Index joined English Pen, Reporters Without Borders, Cartoonist Rights Network International and dozens of protesters to call on the British government to hold president Erdogan accountable for the ongoing crackdown on free speech
Turkish censors vs Netflix, series 1 episode 1
All that is solid in the Turkish media melted into air over the past year, and much of the entertainment content have migrated from traditional platforms to streaming services like YouTube and Netflix.
Winner of 2018 George Theiner Award announced
British academic David Short has been announced as the recipient of the George Theiner Award 2018.
The media “can’t afford thinking”: Why Portuguese journalists are leaving newsrooms for government roles
While the Portuguese media goes through a crisis, the government has taken to hiring unmotivated and underpaid journalists, accelerating the hollowing out of newsrooms.
Cypriot journalists targeted over leaked emails
Journalists’ organisations and international bodies have expressed concern over freedom of the press in Cyprus following revelations that police have questioned journalists about leaked emails
