Kurdish journalists jailed in Turkey face particular challenges in defending their rights in court. In many cases, they are imprisoned hundreds of miles from the court in which they are being tried. The distances involved hamper the defendants’ family vists and access to legal support. Some defendants never appear in person before a judge or […]

Türkiye’de bugün gazeteciler, Türkiye Anayasası ve diğer uluslararası insan hakları sözleşmelerinin garanti altına aldığı adil yargılanma hakkından büyük ölçüde mahrum bırakılırak, belirli kısıtlamalara maruz kalıyor. Bu kısıtlamaların başında, gazetecilerin duruşmalarına fiziken katılmaları engellenerek, SEGBİS denen video-konferans bağlantısıyla bağlanmaları geliyor.

Seda (Seher) Taşkın, a journalist for Turkey’s Mezopotomya News Agency who has been held in pretrial detention for over six months, appeared before a court on July 2, 2018 for the second hearing in a case brought for her news articles and reporting from eastern Turkey. Taşkın was arrested at her home in Ankara on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today condemned the killing of three Russian journalists in the Central African Republic on July 30. Journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, director Alexander Rastorguyev and cameraman Kirill Radchenko were shot dead in an ambush outside the town of Sibut, approximately 200 km northeast […]