The head of a union representing Turkish journalists has ended a hunger strike he began last week to protest alleged efforts by management of a state-run news agency to pressure employees to quit the union. Turkish Union of Journalists (TGS) President Ercan Ipekçi said Wednesday that he was ready and willing to continue the hunger […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch The German National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI) today issued a statement in which Dr. Carl-Eugen Eberle, the chairman of the committee and of IPI’s Executive Board, praised the release of Turkish journalist Nedim Şener from prison and noted the importance of international solidarity among journalists. The […]

Read in English Der türkische Journalist Nedim Şener ist am 12. März 2012 aus dem Silivri Gefängnis in der Nähe von Istanbul freigekommen. Er war – zusammen mit weiteren Personen –  vor mehr als einem Jahr unter dem Vorwurf, Mitglied des Geheimbundes „Ergenekon“ zu sein, in Untersuchungshaft genommen worden. Gegenstand der Anklage gegen Şener und […]

One day after Turkish journalist Nedim Şener was freed from prison pending trial, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie travelled to Turkey to personally congratulate Şener, an IPI World Press Freedom Hero, and to express her support to the IPI Turkish National Committee and the Platform for Journalists, both of which had strongly campaigned for Şener’s […]