IPI Turkey Advocacy Coordinator Caroline Stockford moderated a panel in Istanbul, Turkey, on impunity in journalist killings. The panellists included the children of several journalists murdered in Turkey as well as as the son of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. About the event: Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in Malta in October 2017 for her relentless […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will be honoured with the Press Freedom Award given by the Mayorship of Karşıyaka, a district of İzmir Province, and the İzmir Journalists Association (IGC) during a ceremony in Karşıyaka, Turkey on September 7, 2018. The award is being given in honour of IPI’s work to support independent journalism in […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 67th General Assembly during the 2018 IPI World Congress in Abuja, Nigeria, unanimously passed four resolutions urging action on press freedom issues in Africa, Egypt, Turkey and in relation to the online harassment of journalists. IPI members: – called on African governments to protect the […]

On June 15, 2018, the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Forum Medien und Journalismus Wien (fjum) hosted a seminar for journalists on Austria on Turkey’s June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections. Entitled “Understanding Erdoğan’s success at home and abroad”, the seminar brought two highly respected observers of Turkish politics to address the questions: Why […]