Turkey: implement Constitutional Court decision to free journalists
A High Criminal Court of Istanbul has defied a Constitutional Court’s ruling that the rights of journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 12, 2018
Turkey’s constitutional court orders release of two journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes today’s constitutional court decision finally ordering the release of two journalists, Mehmet...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 11, 2018
Turkish president, about to visit France, must stop crushing media freedom
As French President Emmanuel Macron prepares to receive a visit from his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reporters Without...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 4, 2018
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
Rohingya crisis brings Turkey and Bangladesh closer
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have sought refuge in Bangladesh [Abir Abdullah/EPA] To most Rohingyataking shelter in makeshift...
Al Jazeera
Dec 22, 2017
Turkish PM terms persecution on Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’
Terming the atrocities on Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “ethnic cleansing”, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim...
Daily Star
Dec 20, 2017
Turkey: nearly 70 journalists on trial in one week
In a new record for the persecution of the media in Turkey, a total of 68 journalists are due to appear in court in four different trials...
Reporters without Borders 1
Dec 7, 2017
Turkish Woman In Symbol Photo: These Red Crosses Mean That Alevis To Be Killed
The anxiety of the Alevis, whose houses were marked with a red cross in Turkey's Malatya province, has come to the agenda with this...
Stockholm Center for Freedom
Nov 26, 2017
Turkey: Website editor’s three-year jail term called “height of absurdity”
An Istanbul court today sentenced Oğuz Güven, the editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper’s website, to three years and one month in prison on...
Reporters without Borders 1
Nov 21, 2017
Forced Into Genocide: Memoirs of an Armenian Soldier in the Ottoman Turkish Army
Forced into Genocide is the riveting memoir of Yervant N. Alexanian : an eye-witness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and...
Adrienne Alexanian
Nov 8, 2017
Independent press on trial this week in Turkey
A total of 26 employees of the opposition newspapers Cumhuriyet and Özgür Gündem are being prosecuted in two emblematic trials that...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 31, 2017
Turkey sentences Wall Street Journal reporter on terrorism charge
The jail sentence that a Turkish court has passed on Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak over her coverage of clashes between...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 12, 2017
