Articles by P24 Platform for Independent Journalism
Turkey: Where do the presidential candidates stand on free expression?
Ahead of the elections, Expression Interrupted analyses the approaches to media regulation and free speech of the two leading candidates: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.
Gezi trial: Osman Kavala handed life in prison, seven co-defendants get 18 years each
“The judicial process has become deformed under political influence and turned into an act of deprivation of liberty by abuse of power” – Osman Kavala
New Turkey report: May and June saw increased police violence against reporters and 109 journalists stand trial
Expression Interrupted’s report shows that freedom of expression and the media continues to deteriorate in Turkey, despite an ongoing decline in the number of journalists in prison and government “reforms”.
New report on Turkey: 213 journalists stood trial in first four months of 2021; at least 68 were in prison
Expression Interrupted, a project undertaken by the P24 Platform for Independent Journalism, has published the first of its regular ‘Freedom of Expression and the Press Agenda’ reports.
Turkey: Writer Ahmet Altan released after Supreme Court overturns his conviction
Altan and his co-defendant Nazlı Ilıcak, whose conviction was also overturned, were sentenced in November 2019 to 10 years and 6 months and 8 years and 9 months in prison respectively, on the charge of “aiding a terrorist organization”.
ECtHR: Ahmet Altan’s detention violated his right to liberty, freedom of expression
Noting that there was no indication that Altan’s actions had been part of a deliberate plan to overthrow the government, the ECtHR ruled that Altan has been unlawfully detained and accused without reasonable suspicion of involvement in an illegal organisation and the 2016 attempted coup.
“Makeup on a bedridden patient”: Rights experts assess Turkey’s new Human Rights Action Plan
“The lack of a clear implementation schedule, the exclusion of NGOs in the mechanism for protection of human rights and failure to word the measures to be taken in concrete language raise doubts about the implementation of the plan”.
Turkey: Can Dündar sentenced to 27 years and 6 months in prison because of his journalism
The former editor-in-chief of “Cumhuriyet” daily was on trial over the newspaper’s 2015 coverage of allegations that Turkey sent weapons to insurgents in Syria on trucks operated by the National Intelligence Agency.