Her Excellency Tansu Ciller Prime Minister of Turkey Prime Minister’s Office Ankara Turkey Vienna, 5 December 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), is most concerned about the recent bomb attacks on bureaus of Özgür Ülke, the Istanbul daily newspaper. We understand that on 3 December 1994, bombs exploded in the Ankara and Istanbul […]

His Excellency Mr. Boris Yeltsin President Moscow Russian Federation Vienna, 28 November 1994 Your Excellency, Over 40 days has passed since Dmitri Kholodov, a journalist working for Moscow’s most popular daily newspaper Moscovski Komsomolets, was killed in a bomb blast. Mr. Kholodov , who had been investigating mafia connections with officers in the Western Army […]

His Excellency Mr. Slobodan Milosevic President of the Republic of Serbia Office of the President Belgrade Republic of Serbia Vienna, 22 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned about the threat to press freedom in Serbia posed by the Government’s war of attrition against the daily newspaper Borba. We are […]

His Excellency Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong Office of the Prime Minister Istana Annexe, Istana Singapore Vienna, 22 November 1994 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the legal action taken by the Republic of Singapore against an American professor and the International Herald Tribune for an opinion piece that criticised […]