Press freedom in Turkey: Repression is all too real
Tim Dawson traveled to Turkey from November 27-30 2019 to observe and monitor journalists trials as well as participate in an International Conference within the…
TGS vows to fight against Hurriyet’s ‘illegal’ layoffs
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has vowed to fight against Hurriyet newspaper’s “illegal” decision to fire 45 of its unionized employees. TGS President Gokhan…
Daily Hurriyet fires 45 employees
Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper has fired 45 of its employees, including several senior journalists, in an unprecedented move that triggered an outrage among press freedom advocates.…
TGS elects new board, vowing to keep defending press freedom
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has elected the members of its new board with a vow to keep defending the freedom of the press.…
EFJ elects Kuleli with highest vote for Steering Committee
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), which is the largest organization of journalists in Europe, representing over 320,000 journalists in 72 journalists’ organizations across 45…
TGS inaugurates EU-funded Journalism Academy in Istanbul
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) has inaugurated TGS Academy’s new building in Istanbul with the support of the European Union. The TGS Academy on…
Turkey: #JournalismIsNotaCrime
Campaign to set journalism free, develop trade union rights and defend freedom of expression in Turkey The overall objective is to promote and protect fundamental…
Turkey: EU must hold Turkish President accountable for press freedom violations
As arrests of journalists and media closure continue, the European and the International Federation of Journalists (EFJ/IFJ) call on the European Union to take additional…
Turkey must stop feeding its environment of fear for journalists and trade unionists
The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ and IFJ) is calling upon the presumptive upcoming Turkish Prime minister, Binali Yildirim, to end the climate…
Press freedom must be a part of any agreement with Turkey
The European Federation of Journalist (EFJ) has strongly condemned the assassination attempt on 6 May in Istanbul against journalist Can Dündar (editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet daily…
Foreign press correspondents increasingly banned from Turkey
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has today condemned the entry ban imposed by Turkish authorities against Russian journalist Tural Kerimov, the Turkey bureau chief for…
Two arrested journalists released in Turkey after 92 days
he European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) warmly welcomed today Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruling on February 25 stating that the rights of Cumhuriyet newspaper…
Turkey must allow supporters to meet with imprisoned journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül
Leading international free expression and press freedom groups condemn government’s refusal to allow supporters to visit pair jailed for their reporting, call for their release…
IFJ, EFJ and TGS demand an end to oppression of journalists in post-election Turkey
Brussels, 6 November 2015. – The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) and their affiliate the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) reviewed…
TGS’s Kuleli: Government encirclement of the media has been getting tighter
This week’s guest for Monday Talk has said that the government’s clampdown on the media has been intensifying and might get even worse if current…
IFJ and EFJ slam Turkish government over latest media clampdown ahead the elections
The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ and EFJ) today joined their affiliate, the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS, in Turkish), in condemning the…
Press freedom groups express solidarity with journalists in Turkey
The International and European Federations of Journalists, their Turkish affiliate TGS and seven other international press freedom organisations yesterday adopted a Declaration in Istanbul expressing…
What unions, governments and employers must do to defend freedom of association?
Journalists from across the Balkans and Eastern Europe met in Belgrade (Serbia) on 10-11 October 2015 to discuss the status of journalism in the region…
Turkey: Kurdish daily attacked and 32 journalists interrogated
The offices of the Kurdish daily newspaper Azadiya Welat and Kurdish news agency DIHA in Diyabakir (Turkey) have been attacked on 28/09/2015 by police forces…
Conference to tackle press freedom and labor rights in Turkey
“Jailed journalists, threshold for collective bargaining, no freelancers rights, refusals of press cards, restrictions of accreditation, growing prosecutions, less freedom to publish.” This bleak picture…