Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu delivered his defence statement on July 25, 2017, the second day of the trial of 17 journalists and executives from the paper. Sabuncu was scheduled to speak on July 24, but his testimony was delayed by a day after gendarmes at the Silivri Prison, where he has been held since October […]

A longtime journalist, Nadezhda Azhgikhina is the former executive secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists and currently vice president of the European Federation of Journalists. With support from organizations such as UNESCO, UN WOMEN and the OSCE, she has coordinated numerous international projects relating to press freedom and gender and cultural rights. She recently […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined other leading international free expression groups as well as international journalists and European Parliament members in observing the start of a major trial against journalists with Turkey’s last major critical newspaper. The 17 journalists and executives with the secular daily Cumhuriyet – some of whom face up to […]

Cumhuriyet Executive Board Chair/CEO Akın Atalay delivered a lengthy, point-by-point rebuttal of the government’s accusations against his newspaper in a statement in court on July 24, 2017. Atalay, who has been held in Turkey’s high-security Silivri Prison since November 2016, faces a possible sentence of eleven-and-a-half to 43 years in prison on charges of “helping […]