Turkish authorities re-arrested the internationally known Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan just one week after his release from more than three years in detention. Index on Censorship and 24 other NGOs say that his re-arrest, on 12 November, was an...
Ahead of the second hearing in the retrial of Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and four other journalists and media workers, free speech organisations call for all detained defendants to be released and for the charges to be dropped
Thirteen international organisations have submitted a statement to UN Human Rights Council calling on Turkey to halt is crackdown on the media.
Eighteen international organisations have written to the UN Human Rights Council to ask that it address the Turkish government’s repressive campaign against freedom of expression
Human rights and freedom of expression organisations have condemned a judicial ruling made by a Turkish court in the second hearing of the Gezi Park trial.
Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 18 other human rights and freedom of expression organisations condemn a Turkish pro-government think-tank’s report that accuses leading international media of being biased against the government and singles out their correspondents for attack.
We declare our solidarity with Academics for Peace, and with all progressives under threat in Turkey.
Index on Censorship joins Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) to report that the internationally acclaimed cartoonist Musa Kart is again a prisoner this World Press Freedom Day.
Index on Censorship condemns a criminal indictment sent to a Turkish court against 16 civil society leaders including artist Meltem Arikan, actors Memet Ali Alabora and Pinar Ogun, and journalist Can Dündar.
Index on Censorship joins call for Turkey’s government to end the state of emergency by withdrawing recently passed legislation that replicates many of the state of emergency’s special provisions