Turkey

Turkey: MFRR calls for swift and thorough investigation into murder of Güngör Arslan

21/02/2022

The partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) strongly condemn the murder of Güngör Arslan, the owner and managing editor of the local Ses Kocaeli newspaper in Turkey

Turkey: a call to release Sedef Kabaş

01/02/2022

We joined the call of the International Press Institute, signed by other 25 human rights and journalists’ organizations, to ask for the immediate release of journalist Sedef Kabaş following her late-night arrest on January 22 and for an end to the judicial harassment of independent media

Impact of Social Media Law on Media Freedom in Turkey Monitoring Report

The report covers the period between October 2020 and October 2021, consisting of input from 36 news outlets concerning the subject, object, legitimation of the articles that received content removal because of the implementation of the Law numbered 5651 that has expanded the scope of the "access blocking" mechanism enabling multiple bodies of the state apparatus to issue such orders

Media Freedom in Turkey

31/01/2019

The seventh of a series of thematic itineraries to explore the Resource Centre on Media Freedom through a curated aggregation of contents

Turkey: growing digital censorship compounds press freedom crisis

11/10/2021

We joined ten other organisations in a mission to Turkey led by IPI. While the government refused the invitation for a meeting, journalists, civil society representatives, MPs and other institutions denounced an ever-worsening environment for Turkey's remaining independent press

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020

An interactive tool to browse and compare data from the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report

Turkey: CFWIJ demands action to end police brutality against journalists

28/07/2021

The Coalition for Women in Journalism launches a petition that recognizes police violence in Turkey as one of the most urgent issues

Turkey: Concern over proposals to introduce new regulation of “fake” and “foreign-funded” news

23/07/2021

OBCT co-signed a statement condemning the proposal to introduce a new regulation of "fake" and "foreign-funded" news in Turkey. If approved, these measures will further undermine media freedom and pluralism in the country

Turkey: SLAPP lawsuit filed against academic over Paradise Papers tweet

28/05/2021

NGOs and journalists’ organisations call for the dropping of a lawsuit launched against the academic Prof Yaman Akdeniz by Serhat Albayrak, seeking 100,000 Turkish lira (€9,600) in damages for his tweets about the censorship of reports into the criminal investigations and civil lawsuits against journalists who reported on the Paradise Papers

Turkey: a letter of concern ahead of the visit of EU leaders

02/04/2021

Ahead of their visit to Turkey, we joined several ngos and human rights groups in asking the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission to highlight the country's domestic human rights situation, in particular threats to journalists and media outlets