Turkey’s Kurdish media and cultural institutions have been closed as the peace process with the country’s Kurds has disintegrated.
Silencing the Kurds: Shuttered media and cultural institutions
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CATEGORY: Turkey
Turkey: Freedom of the arts, archives and erasure
Erdogan’s crackdown on freedom of expression follows a familiar pattern.
Turkey, free speech and the referendum
Join us for a discussion to analyse the result of the referendum on Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies and freedom of expression in particular.
Turkey: Court bans pro-Kurdish HDP’s referendum song
Bejin Na/Say No was recently banned in the Şırnak province for inciting “inciting the public hate” and unrest
#IndexAwards2017: Turkey Blocks strives to win back the internet
Established in 2015, Turkey Blocks is an independent digital research organisation that monitors internet access restrictions in Turkey
Turkey’s silenced: Journalist Nur Ener arrested after a tip-off
Nur Ener is one of over 150 journalists in prison in Turkey. She was arrested for using an obscure app after publishing critical interview.
Meltem Arikan: The difference between Wales and Turkey
While touring Wales recently with my new play Enough Is Enough, I thought about what I experienced with my earlier work in Turkey. But which Turkey?
Amberin Zaman: Turkey has entered uncharted waters
Many cast Turkey’s April 16 referendum as a final chance to reverse the slide towards authoritarianism. But the odds are heavily stacked against the opposition.
Semih Poroy: Life under emergency rule
A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on life in Turkey under emergency rule.
Memnune Mayda: “Our only child is definitely not a traitor”
The mother of Ă–zkan Mayda, a Turkish photojournalist for the Zaman daily, shares her son’s story.
Semih Poroy: Turkey’s place in the world
A cartoonist for the daily Cumhuriyet shares his take on Turkey on the international stage.
Ece Temelkuran: What will become of Erdogan’s little clones when he’s gone?
A country’s leadership sets the tone, but can also penetrate the very fabric of the public’s existence igniting a metamorphosis that creates political clones
