Category: <span>Turkey</span>

15 June: Illiberal democracy: the future of freedom

Europe was a bastion of hope for more than a million refugees last year. What brought them? A hunger for safety and security? Dreams of freedom?

Yavuz Baydar: Imminent collapse of journalism in Turkey

by Yavuz Baydar | 03 May 16

With conditions worsening on a daily basis, Turkey now risks total blackout on public debate. Punitive measures and harsh restrictions have diminished the domain for free and independent media

“No one – and especially heads of state – has a right not to be offended”

by Index on Censorship | 15 Apr 16

Index deplores the decision by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to authorise the prosecution of a German comedian for offending the President of Turkey.

#IndexAwards2016: Ferit Tunç uses inventive methods to challenge censorship in Turkey

by Georgia Hussey | 08 Apr 16

Turkish journalist Ferit Tunç quit his advertising job in 2013 to found the newspaper Yön Gazetesi, covering the Kurdish Batman province of Turkey

#IndexAwards2016: Gökhan Biçici launched citizen news agency Dokuz8Haber after Gezi Park protests

by Georgia Hussey | 28 Mar 16

Gökhan Biçici is a Turkish reporter and was one of the most active reporters of the 2013 anti-government Gezi Park protests in Istanbul

Turkey should drop criminal charges against journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül

by Index on Censorship | 24 Mar 16

Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn politically motivated trial

Turkey: Media freedom in crisis

by Index on Censorship | 23 Mar 16

The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints

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.