Turkish authorities must take steps to bring those responsible for attacks on media outlets to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after mobs converged on the offices of daily newspapers and a broadcaster in a second night of violence this week. Daily Hürriyet was attacked again on Tuesday night by stone-throwing demonstrators protesting […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) today called on members of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) to condemn yesterday night’s destructive attack on the headquarters of daily newspaper Hürriyet by a crowd of stone-throwing AKP supporters angered by its reporting on a comment by the president. The […]

As violent attacks on journalists surge to an unprecedented level with at least 55 confirmed dead in connection with their job so far this year according to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, 2015 may end up as one of the deadliest years for journalists since the beginning of the new millennium, participants at an […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its Norwegian National Committee today jointly expressed concern over Turkey’s decision to deny press accreditation to a correspondent of Norway’s Aftenpostennewspaper. The correspondent, Silje Rønning Kampesæter, had applied for a press card shortly after arriving in Istanbul last September. Kampesæter told IPI in a telephone interview that she learned […]