The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) welcomed Austria’s assumption of the 2017 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) last week, calling on the country to use the opportunity to strengthen cooperation to protect and promote media freedom among OSCE participating states. Austrian Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs […]

Authorities in Azerbaijan should thoroughly investigate a blogger’s accusations that police officers abducted and tortured him, rather than investigating the blogger for allegedly slandering police, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said yesterday that it had complained to prosecutors after blogger and activist Mehman Huseynov claimed that men […]

Bu yazıyı Türkçe okumak için burayı tıklayınız Remarks by Turkey’s justice minister suggesting that the nearly 150 journalists currently behind bars in the country are terrorists, murderers or drug dealers and that no journalist is in prison due to journalistic work are “absurd and disgraceful”, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Justice Minister Bekir […]

Read this article in English Viyana merkezli Uluslararası Basın Enstitüsü (IPI), Adalet Bakanı Bekir Bozdağ’ın şu anda demir parmaklıklar arkasında bulunan yaklaşık 150 gazetecinin gazetecilik faaliyetlerinden değil “terörist, katil ya da uyuşturucu satıcısı olduğu için” hapiste olduğuna dair ifadelerini “absürt ve utanç verici” bulduğunu bildirdi. Bozdağ, bu açıklamayı pazartesi gecesi, Cumhurbaşkanı’na çok geniş iktidar sağlayacak […]