At the opening address a proclamation was read signed by 8 international and 22 national institutions…
Dear ‘Freedom of Expression’ advocates, As you know, houses and offices have been raided and searched for Ahmet Şık’s yet to be published book ‘İmamın Ordusu’ by the prosecutor and the originals were deleted from the computers after copies were made. Prosecution declared this not a book but an organisational document and that who are in possession will be prosecuted unless they are surrendered and upon which a petition signed by tens of thousands have denounced themselves saying I too have a copy. Now we have taken one more step. The content of the book is published via internet. Here is another more effective civil disobedience opportunity! I am being civilly disobedient by sending the below text to the e-mail address of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Turan Colakkadı. Furthermore by inviting you all to do the same I am committing another offence and suggesting you repeat this as well.
Organised every two years by the Initiative for Freedom of Expression an İstanbul Gathering for Freedom…
The sixth gathering in Istanbul for Freedom of Expression took place on 23 and 24 May…
As the first century come to a close since the abolishment of censorship in Turkey, the…
The 5th Gathering was dedicated to the memory of the murdered Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, and…
The Metropolitan Municipality and Beyoğlu, Beykoz, Pendik, Sarıyer and Üsküdar District Municipalities opened their resources and…
The project had to be postponed two times due to the earthquake and the terrible economic…
Şanar Yurdatapan, the founder of Initiative for Freedom of Expression, was awarded Global Human Rights Defender…