Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 16-23 June
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CATEGORY: Turkey
Yavuz Baydar: A noble profession has turned into a curse
Journalism has, without the slightest doubt, become the most risky, and endangered, profession in Turkey.
Turkey arrests journalists who showed support for press freedom
Index on Censorship calls for the immediate and unconditional release of journalists Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Erol Önderoğlu and Ahmet Nesin, who were arrested by Turkish authorities on 20 June.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 2-16 June
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union
Illiberal democracy: Europe’s worrying trend on freedom and liberty
Free Word in partnership with Index on Censorship brought together three major cultural figures from Hungary, Poland and Turkey to compare their stories and ask: is Europe just a place, or a set of values that are rapidly unravelling?
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in review
Each week, Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Yavuz Baydar: “Judicial coup” sends clear warning to Turkey’s remaining independent journalists
In an unprecedented move, Turkey’s judiciary has been reshuffled in a way that has shaken the basis of the justice system.
Mapping Media Freedom: Two years of uncovering attacks on Europe’s press
Mapping Media Freedom launched to the public on 24 May 2014. Two years on, the platform has verified over 1,800 media violations
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European
Truth and the public interest are forbidden in Turkey
Index on Censorship condemns the clearly political sentencing of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Belit SaÄź: Refusing to accept Turkey’s silencing of artistic expression
In an open letter, artist E. Belit SaÄź describes the censorship she faced as part of a show at Akbank Sanat.
April was busiest month on record for Mapping Media Freedom
April 2016 was the busiest month for Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom since the project began in May 2014
