IPI receives İzmir Press Freedom Prize

Award honours IPI's I Subscribe campaign for independent journalism

Sep 12, 2018

IPI Turkey National Committee Chair Kadri Gürsel (second from R) accepts the Izmir Journalists Association Press Freedom Prize on behalf of IPI. Joining Gürsel in holding the trophy are Misket Dikmen (L), president of the Izmir Journalists Association, and Hüseyin Mutlu Akpınar (R), mayor of Karşıyaka Municipality, which hosted the award ceremony.

The İzmir Journalists Association awarded its 2018 Press Freedom Prize to the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, at a ceremony on September 7. The award was accepted on behalf of the IPI network by Kadri Gürsel, a renowned journalist and chair of IPI’s Turkey National Committee.