Arts organisation Siyah Bant examines how emergency rule has affected artistic expression in Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey
Turkey: Bans on Kurdish arts festivals spark solidarity actions
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Learn from Turkey: Resistance can’t just end at “No”
Writer Ece Temelkuran warns global movements to learn from the example of her homeland.
Dim hopes for 2017, but we’ll keep up the struggle for a free world
Journalist Yavuz Baydar writes about this hopes for Turkey’s journalists in 2017
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe.
Turkey: Pro-government newspapers rewarded with state-sponsored advertising
Imprisoned journalists make headlines, but the Turkish government has a more insidious method for controlling the media
Mapping Media Freedom: Five incidents to watch
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. Here are five recent reports that give us cause for concern.
Rights groups demand justice for journalist Mehman Huseynov tortured in Azerbaijan
Global human rights organisations strongly condemn the abduction and torture of Azerbaijani journalist Mehman Huseynov
Turkey: “The worst time is when the ruler and the evil of the people are united”
I am a Turkish activist, a human rights defender, a dissident, and currently I feel like a lab rat trapped in a maze, trying to find an exit to freedom.
Portugal: Low wages and job insecurity threaten media freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Although not exposed to the perils that press freedom encounters in places such as Turkey or Hungary, experts in Portugal tell Mapping Media Freedom that journalists in the country live under a “subliminal” type...
Azerbaijan: Regime targets musician through his family
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Azerbaijani rapper Jamal Ali's family were summoned to questioning by the Baku State police. They have since been released. "My mother and some other relatives are in Baku state police department now," Ali wrote...