Category: <span>Europe and Central Asia</span>

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

World Poetry Day: Seamus Heaney’s love of language

by Ryan McChrystal | 21 Mar 16

It’s the 17th annual World Poetry Day, which was first declared by Unesco in 1999 to help meet the world’s aesthetic needs by promoting the reading and writing of poetry

#IndexAwards2016: Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has not let prison silence him

by Georgia Hussey | 21 Mar 16

Blogger and human rights activist Dr Abduljalil Al-Singace has been in prison in Bahrain since 2010

Political prisoners released in Azerbaijan

by Index on Censorship | 18 Mar 16

Sport for Rights coalition expresses its relief over the release of 15 political prisoners in Azerbaijan.

From nudity to “a political tsunami”: artistic freedom debated in Greece

by Vicky Baker | 18 Mar 16

“My job is to make good art,” said Belgian artist Kris Verdonck. “I have no interest in being deliberately offensive or provocative.”

Doğu Ergil: Turkey, the humanitarian crisis and erratic responses

by Index on Censorship | 18 Mar 16

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

by Ryan McChrystal | 17 Mar 16

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

by Index on Censorship | 17 Mar 16

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

by Index on Censorship | 16 Mar 16

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.