reports in MEDIA category

The BİA Media Monitoring Report aims to pinpoint the specific tendencies in repression targeting journalists, and reveals how, in the detention of 31 journalists in the last 3 months, judiciary control measures have been abused, and although there are no longer legal grounds for it, censorship continues with brazen opportunism.

The first meeting for the year 2025 of the Media Literacy Coalition, organized within the scope of the “Our Media” project, of which the IPS Communication Foundation/bianet is a partner, was held online on January 6.

The remains of journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, who were killed in Syria, will be handed over at the Semelka Border Crossing between Syria and Iraq. However, the delegation from Turkey has not been allowed to pass into Iraq for 18 hours.

The Dicle Fırat Journalists’ Association declared that “the decisions amount to censorship” and stated that they will be filing criminal complaints.

The many challenges that come with being Kurdish, being a woman, and being a journalist—which my women colleagues will understand all too well—have not diminished in the past ten years.

Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were killed while covering the clashes between Turkish-backed groups and the SDF.

Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin were covering the clashes between Turkey-backed groups and Kurdish foces.

Musavat Dervişoğlu's security team attempted to prevent some journalists from covering an event where he met with party members.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon's book The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice has been banned in Turkey for the second time.

"If awarding a 642-million-lira tender to someone like this is not newsworthy, then what is?" says Evren Demirdaş.

Imprisonment, isolation, unemployment, threats, bans, censorship... This is a summary of what I’ve gone through. Yet, I remain hopeful, both for journalism and for my country. Despite everything, the generation I belong to does not give up on writing, reporting, and speaking out.

The average salary in the media sector is just 28% above the minimum wage.