Over the past year, dozens of journalists have been fired as a result of government pressure. Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists who dispute government claims, concludes a new Freedom House report.
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‘Today there is hardly a democratic government in Turkey. I have taken to calling it “Erdocracy” as it carries the heavy hand of PM Erdoğan.’ Writer Tarik Günersel issues a sharp critique of Prime Minister Erdoğan’s government, as censorship of the arts expands and institutional corruption worsens.
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Still denied his passport after nearly three years, Ai Weiwei exists in a strange purgatory. In this interview, the dissident Chinese artist speaks truth to power, as China’s exploitative processes of development demand great responsibility from the nation’s intellectual and artistic currents.
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“The genuine democracy package for Turkey.” A cartoon by Menekse Cam (Turkey).
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Rodrigo Malmierca, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Investment, declared last month that, on the island, there would never be elections involving parties other than the Cuban Communist Party. If the legal route to a multiparty system is closed, what should Castro’s opponents do now?
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El ministro de Comercio Exterior e Inversión Extranjera, Rodrigo Malmierca declaró en noviembre que en la Isla nunca habrá elecciones con otro partido que no sea el comunista. Si la vía legal está cerrada para implementar el pluripartidismo, ¿qué deben hacer entonces los opositores a Castro?
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Nearly 800 writers, poets, journalists, translators, and editors are currently in prison around the world. Approximately one tenth of them are in Turkey, where an Anti-Terror Law has been broadly applied to target writers. Here PEN Turkey president explains and names the writers under threat.
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