Despite repeated calls by international organisations for reform, Belarus’ regime for press accreditation continues to help the government maintain its monopoly on information
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Yavuz Baydar: As academic freedom recedes, intellectuals begin an exodus from Turkey
The stream may be small right now, a trickle, but it is unmistakable. Turkey’s academics and its secular elite are quietly and slowly making their way for the exits.
Yavuz Baydar: Turkey cancelling journalists’ passports en masse
“Turkish police have cancelled all the journalists’ passports since July 15.” This tweet landed in my timeline on Monday morning. The author was Selina Doğan, an opposition deputy and a lawyer.
Youth Advisory Board: Free speech issues around the world
For the past six months the Index on Censorship Youth Advisory Board has attended monthly online meetings to debate free speech issues and completed tasks
20 Sep: Author Ece Temelkuran on the struggles that have shaped Turkey
Join Index on Censorship’s CEO Jodie Ginsberg as she presents an evening with award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran to discuss her latest book Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy.
15 Sep: The State of Turkey with Kaya Genç, Ece Temelkuran and Daniel Trilling
Index on Censorship magazine contributing editor Kaya Genç discusses Turkey’s evolution with Ece Temelkuran
Yavuz Baydar: Turkey takes wife of journalist hostage
As I’ve been writing for months now, the job that runs the highest risk in Turkey is, without a shred of doubt, journalism.
Turkey’s media crackdown has reached the Netherlands
Dutch journalists have been threatened in aftermath of Turkish coup attempt
Croatia: Over 70 journalists axed from public broadcaster since January
The cancellation of three radio programmes on 4 July by Croatia’s public broadcaster marks the latest in a line of sweeping changes the network has undergone since January 2016.
Yavuz Baydar: Six more journalists jailed in Turkey
It was a long Saturday night for all of us, at home and abroad, monitoring the worrisome developments around media freedom in Turkey