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 […]

The trial of journalists from independent daily newspaper Cumhuriyet is set to conclude this week in Turkey in a four-day hearing from April 23 to 27 to be held at Silivri Prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul. Prosecutors are demanding prison terms of up to 43 years on charges that the paper’s news reports and its […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined other international free expression organisations in a demonstration outside an Istanbul courthouse prior to the start of the trial against 17 journalists from Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. In an address at the demonstration, IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis urged authorities to release the journalists and […]