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IPI Turkey: Digital Censorship: Can social media be prohibited?

  The IPI Turkish National Committee will be hosting the webinar “Digital Censorship: Can social media be prohibited?” to mark Turkey’s Press Day, July 24, which marks the abolition of official censorship in 1908 during the late Ottoman Empire. On Friday, July 24, journalists and IPI National Committee members Banu Güven and Emre Kızılkaya and […]

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Nedim Türfent: 1500 Days Behind Bars (June 21, 2020)

On June 21, IPI, MLSA and PEN International will be holding online panel sessions in Turkish and English to highlight Nedim Türfent’s continued imprisonment. Learn more about Nedim’s case and how you can use your voice to help free him from prison. On June 15, 45 international and local press freedom organizations published a joint statement to […]

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#WPFD TR: Role of media in beating the pandemic (Zoom, May 3, 2020)

  • At least 90 journalists remain in jail in Turkey • A new parole law excluded jailed journalists and politicians from release, risking lives of    hundreds amid COVID-19 • All judicial proceedings suspended in April due to pandemic • New efforts to stifle print and online media coverage of COVID-19 The International Press […]

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Press Conference: Turkey’s Journalists in the Dock (Istanbul, Nov 29, 2019)

• Over 120 journalists remain in jail in Turkey • Over 100 terror-related investigations opened since Turkey’s incursion into Syria • Fair trial principles routinely breached • New efforts to stifle online media • Is the judicial reform strategy a sham or an opportunity? The International Press Institute (IPI) recently led a press freedom mission to […]

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