According to two pro-government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are “terrorists.” That is the term that they were using last week to denounce the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Paris-based […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has named Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal and his missing colleague, Jordanian reporter of Palestinian origin Bashar Fahmi Kaddumi, the winners of the 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Award. The award is scheduled to be presented during a ceremony on Dec. […]

Representatives from the International Press Institute (IPI) today began a three-day Press Freedom Mission to Turkey to highlight the continuing trend of deteriorating media freedom in the country. Delegates are scheduled to meet this week in Ankara with State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP); Kemal […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that journalist and publisher Bedri Adanir, who had been imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years, has been released. A court in Diyarbakir on Tuesday ordered Adanir, owner of Aram Publishing and a writer for Kurdish daily newspaper Hawar, freed after convicting him of aiding a terrorist […]