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Turkey closes 15 media outlets, raids newspaper office, detains at least 12

New York, October 31, 2016 - The Turkish government should immediately reverse an emergency decree closing at least 15 news agencies, newspapers, and magazines...

Turkey: Operation on Cumhuriyet Daily, 16 Taken into Custody

Police has raided the houses of Cumhuriyet Daily Ediyor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, President of the Execution Board Akın Atalay and Cumuhuriyet Foundation Executive Board member...

Turkish government shuts down 15 Kurdish media outlets

The Turkish government issued on Saturday 29 October a decree shutting down 15 Kurdish media outlets: 11 newspapers, two news agencies and three magazines....

Turkey: Bianet Media Monitoring Report: July – September 2016

107 Journalists in Prison, 2,500 Others Left Unemployed Due To Closures Of 107 arrested journalists, 71 are from Gülen Community, 29 others from Kurdish Media....

Freedom of expression under worldwide attack, UN rights expert warns in new report

NEW YORK (20 October 2016) – “There is no question that governments worldwide are wielding the tools of censorship,” warns the United Nations Special...

Journalists Behind Bars

Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, the importance...

The crushing of independent press in Hungary

October 8, 2016 will go down in Hungarian history as the day when the ideals of the 1956 revolution (when Népszabadság was established) were...

Mapping structural conditions for journalism in Serbia

This MeCoDEM working paper aims to systematically and comprehensively map the structural conditions relevant to journalism and conflict communication in Serbia. Publication date: June 2016 Download...

EFJ and IFJ discussed media freedom in Turkey with CoE Secretary General Jagland

The presidents of the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) and the representatives of the other partner organisations of the Council...

Ricardo Gutierrez: State of Macedonia Media ‘Worst in Balkans’

The General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists, EFJ, says the outlook for press freedom in Macedonia is depressing, condemning the incarceration of...
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