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Self-censorship in Turkey growing, journalists report

Zur deutschen Version Online freedom continues to decline in Turkey, leading to growing self-censorship by its journalists. Twitter’s latest biannual Transparency Report, covering the first half of this year, showed that Turkish authorities continued to make the most requests to the website to remove or withhold content, accounting for approximately 45 percent of all requests […]

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JournalistInnen berichten über wachsende Selbstzensur in der Türkei

Read in English Die freie Meinungsäußerung im Internet ist in der Türkei mehr und mehr durch wachsende Selbstzensur der JournalistInnen gefährdet. Aus dem jüngsten halbjährlichen Twitter-Transparenzbericht für das erste Halbjahr 2017 ging hervor, dass Twitter von türkischen Behörden weiterhin die meisten Anfragen für das Löschen oder Zurückhalten von Inhalten erhält. Die Anfragen aus der Türkei […]

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#MemberComment: Jailing of journalists ‘casts shadow’ over Turkey

International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board Chair John Yearwood was in Istanbul on Oct. 31 as part of ongoing IPI efforts to monitor trial proceedings in the criminal case targeting independent daily newspaper Cumhuriyet and 18 of its current and former journalists and administrators on accusations that the paper’s reporting lent support to terrorists. Eleven […]

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Greek film critic waits 13 years to win insult case

Greek journalist Dimitris Danikas is well-known for his long career as a film critic for various media. What is less widely known about him is his patience and persistence: it took him almost 13 years to finally claim victory in an insult lawsuit against him. The thought of giving up never crossed his mind, Danikas […]

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