This column was originally submitted to Today’s Zaman, but was rejected by the new management. Ihsan Yilmaz was a columnist for Today’s Zaman.
İhsan Yılmaz: No more genuine elections in Turkey
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The What a Liberty! project visit the Magna Carta
What a Liberty! is a Heritage Lottery funded youth project run by Index on Censorship to create a radical re-imagining of the Magna Carta.
Nicole Pope: A lack of free media allows Turkish authorities to control the narrative
Today’s Zaman columnist Nicole Pope’s final column was rejected by the new management of the paper.
Kaya Genç: On “coup plots”, journalism trials and Turkey’s need for a proper dissensus
The modern crisis in Turkey’s journalistic freedoms began in 2008. Index on Censorship magazine’s Kaya Genc revisits the “coup cases” that ended up turning Turkish journalism into a field of feuds and hostilities
Speak out on Turkey: As Index petition passes the 2,600 mark, crackdown on press freedom continues
Over a week and 2,611 signatures later, our work denouncing the Turkish authorities for the takeover Zaman
Yavuz Baydar: Bid farewell to journalism, and lose Turkey
Yavuz Baydar writes that Erdogan is driving the final nails into the coffin of journalism in Turkey
#IndexAwards2016: Marking International Women’s Day
From a journalist who trains women to tell the story of Syria’s civil war and a comedian who uses her routines to campaign for women’s rights in Indonesia
Music in Exile: Smockey playlist
Serge Bambara, aka Smockey, is a hip-hop artist, producer and activist within Le Balai Citoyen, or the Citizen’s Broom, a grassroots political movement
Writers and artists condemn seizure of Zaman news group
Artists and writers joined Index in condemning Turkish government’s seizure of Zaman newspaper
Turkish court orders seizure of Zaman news group
The seizure of Turkey’s biggest opposition newspaper is the latest move against press freedom in the country.
Index condemns seizure of Zaman
Index on Censorship condemns the seizure by Turkish courts of the newspaper Zaman, one of the country’s highest circulation newspapers.
UAE: Human rights organisations renew call for release of peaceful activists
On the third anniversary of the start of the mass trial of 94 individuals, including government critics and advocates of reform, 10 human rights organisations appeal to the government of the United Arab Emirates to release immediately and unconditionally all those imprisoned
