International Press Institute

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) has called on members of Turkey?s Justice and Development Party (AKP) to condemn the destructive attack on the headquarters of daily Hürriyet by a crowd of stone-throwing AKP supporters angered by its reporting on a comment by the Turkish president.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has called on the Turkish government to stop using anti-terror laws and financial agencies against journalists in the wake of police raids targeting a corporation and the arrests of two British journalists.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has welcomed a Turkish Constitutional Court ruling that said a suspended prison sentence given to a journalist violated freedom of expression.

A university student in western Turkey has been detained for retweeting a phrase ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an on Twitter.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has slammed a recent New York Times editorial as ?shameless,? calling on the U.S. daily to ?know its place.?

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI)?s Executive Board called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his supporters in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to ?immediately halt a disingenuous campaign of vilification against the Do?an Media Group and its daily newspaper Hürriyet? that has raged this week, the IPI said in a statement on May 22.

Defamation suits and arrests targeting journalists threaten Turkey?s democracy, a special report released March 27 by the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has concluded.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute's (IPI) Turkish National Committee has announced that it will start a campaign against the increasing number of defamation lawsuits targeting journalists in Turkey.

The International Press Institute (IPI) has expressed concern over reports that Diyarbak?r-based Dutch journalist Fréderike Geerdink could face up to five years in prison in Turkey on accusations that she spread terrorist propaganda on social media.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, has condemned a raid by Turkish police on the printing press of daily Cumhuriyet to inspect the newspaper, which the authorities feared might contain insulting images of the Prophet Muhammad.