Emre Kizilkaya is the vice chair of IPI’s Turkish National Committee and a managing editor and coordinator at Turkish newspaper Hurriyet. He blogs regularly at The Istanbulian, Personal Chronicles of a Turkish Journalist, where this post originally appeared on May 27, 2014. It is reprinted here, with minor edits, by permission. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan […]

Turkish authorities risk inciting violence against journalists unless they stop verbally attacking those covering last week’s deadly mining disaster in the western town of Soma and call on their supporters to do the same, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Hasnain Kazim, an Istanbul-based correspondent for Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) […]

Journalists in Arab countries are facing mounting challenges – kidnappings, assassinations and imprisonment amongst them – Nidal Mansour said the other day in opening the third Arab Forum for Media Freedom Defenders, or MFD. Mansour heads the Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists, an Amman group that documents efforts to subvert the news media. One […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has appealed to British Virgin Islands Governor Boyd McCleary to withhold his assent of a recently approved cybercrime bill that could hamper the ability of journalists to do their jobs. In a letter to McCleary, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie urged the governor to return the Computer Misuse and […]