The International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday unveiled a new website to serve as a resource for information on the more-than-150 journalists and media workers currently behind bars in Turkey. The website, freeturkeyjournalists.com, is part of an effort to promote and defend free expression in Turkey by calling for every journalist behind bars to receive due […]

The Turkish government’s crackdown on independent media poses serious risks to democracy and stability, journalists from the country told a Vienna audience today at an International Press Institute (IPI) event examining media freedom in Turkey ahead of an April constitutional referendum that could vest even greater power in the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. […]

Eine Gruppe zehn unabhängiger Journalisten und Medien-Anwälte aus der Türkei waren, unter anderem, Diskussionsteilnehmern der Veranstaltung „Turkey’s Media Under Siege des Internationalen Presse Institutes (IPI) in Wien am 22. Februar 2017. Die Teilnehmer der Diskussionsrunde, moderiert von der österreichischen Journalistin Petra Ramsauer, besprachen die derzeitige Lage der Medienfreiheit in der Türkei unter Präsident Recep Tayyip […]

Over 20 armed police officers raided the home of Fred M’membe, editor-in-chief of the now-closed newspaper The Post, and arrested his wife Mutinta Mazoka M’membe on Wednesday. Police arrived at M’membe’s home with a search warrant at around 5 p.m. and arrested his wife after she argued with officers and tore up a warrant they […]