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WPFD: Corruption reporting a leading cause of journalist killings in past 12 months

On February 22 this year, police found the bodies of Ján Kuciak, a reporter with the news website Aktuality.sk, and his girlfriend at his home in Slovakia. Kuciak had been investigating corruption in government; his reporting exposing links between an Italian crime mafia and some members of the Slovak government was published after his death. […]

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IPI Executive Board declares solidarity with Gürsel, Cumhuriyet journalists

Türkçesi için tıklayınız Members of the International Press Institute (IPI) global Executive Board today released a statement condemning last week’s sentencing of Executive Board member Kadri Gürsel, along with more than a dozen of Gürsel’s colleages at Turkey’s secular Cumhuriyet newspaper, including several IPI members, to prison. The full statement can be found below. As […]

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IPI Yönetim Kurulu, Kurul üyesi Kadri Gürsel ve IPI üyeleri Murat Sabuncu ve Ahmet Şık ile dayanışma içinde

Read in English IPI Yönetim Kurulu üyeleri olarak, büyük bir endişe ve üzüntüyle gözlemlediğimiz Cumhuriyet davasının, uzun süren adli sürecin ardından geçtiğimiz Çarşamba günü IPI Yönetim Kurul üyemiz Kadri Gürsel, saygın üyelerimiz Murat Sabuncu ve Ahmet Şık, ve Cumhuriyet gazetesindeki diğer meslektaşlarımıza mahkumiyetle sonuçlanmasına şahit olduk. Geçtiğimiz 18 ayda, meslektaşlarımızın tutuklanmalarından bu yana, Cumhuriyet’in temsilcilerine […]

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International groups condemn Cumhuriyet verdict

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today joined a coalition of international press freedom organizations in condemning the prison sentences given to 14 journalists and staff members of Turkey’s secular Cumhuriyet newspaper. Those sentenced in the case include IPI Executive Board Member Kadri Gürsel as well […]

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