His Excellency Mesut Yilmaz Prime Minster of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 15 October 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) the global network of editors and media executives, strongly condemns the jamming of transmissions from the London-based Kurdish-language satellite television station, Med TV, by the Turkish authorities. We […]

His Excellency Mesut Yilmaz Prime Minster of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 30 January 1998 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in over 100 countries, strongly condemns the imprisonment of Haluk Gerger, a […]

Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz promised a joint delegation of foreign and Turkish journalists on Monday, 14 July, that his new government will take immediate steps to free imprisoned prize-winning editor Ocak Isik Yurtcu and other jailed newspaper editors and present a sweeping press law reform package to parliament later this year. The jailing of journalists […]

H. E. Necmettin Erbakan Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 13 May 1997 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors and media executives from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting organisations and news agencies in 98 countries, is most concerned over the circumstances surrounding the armed […]