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Erk Acarer, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government who lives in exile in Germany, on Wednesday announced he was attacked “with knives and fists” in the courtyard of his apartment building...

Turkey’s parliament voted a law early on Wednesday that saw a further tightening of the country's rules on social media.

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MEPs express their solidarity and support for the increasing efforts to fight the pandemic in Turkey European Parliament’s standing Rapporteur on Turkey, Nacho Sánchez Amor (S&D, ES), and Chair of the European Parliament's Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, Sergey Lagodinsky...

Amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, the Turkish government is accelerating the preparation of a draft law that will reportedly release up to 100,000 prisoners. This is a welcome step. Overcrowding and unsanitary facilities already pose...

Due to the coronavirus, the new law on enforcement is on the agenda again and is about to pass from the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The law, which is stated to include murderers, sexual abuse offenders, and those charged with...

Journalist Özcan Keser, sentenced to 9 years in prison, wrote a letter from the Tekirdağ prison explained the unlawfulness he had experienced. Stating that even his brother's rent money sent to him was considered a crime, Keser stated that he...

In the trial of imprisoned journalist Mehmet Baransu, Court committee decision was continue detention. Journalist Mehmet Baransu completed his fifth year in prison. At the evaluation hearing on March 5, which is the anniversary of his arrest, Baransu's lawyer Gülşen...

Peaceful Actions Platform was established under the motto of 'Nobody is free when others are oppressed'. Peaceful Actions; is an International platform established by various non-governmental organizations that are among the founders of the “International Journalists Association” Association, which join...

The videos focus on legal remedies to fight online harassment and how journalists can protect themselves from emotional trauma. This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 27 January 2020. The International Press Institute (IPI) has launched two new video series providing...