İFÖD primarily aims to raise local and national awareness on freedom of expression. In this context, İFÖD has been implementing training programs for young lawyers and law school students. Latest online training entitled “Freedom of Expression for Young Lawyers” has been conducted on the dates of 24 – 27 May and 31 May – 3 June 2021.
21 different NGOs and journalists’ organisations call for the dropping of a lawsuit launched against our co-founder Prof. Yaman Akdeniz by Serhat Albayrak, seeking 100,000 Turkish lira in damages for his tweets about the censorship of reports into the criminal investigations and civil lawsuits against journalists who reported on the Paradise Papers.
ARTICLE 19 and İFÖD issued a joint press release titled “Twitter becomes latest company to comply with repressive social media law” stating that Twitter’s decision, which follows those by YouTube, TikTok and Facebook, means Turkish social media users’ freedom of expression is under even more severe threat, with companies essentially making themselves an instrument of state censorship.
ARTICLE 19 and İFÖD issued a joint press release titled “TikTok’s compliance with social media law enables expansion of censorship regime” stating that TikTok’s decision to comply with Turkey’s new repressive laws on social media seriously threatens free speech on its platform and enables the Turkish government to expand its censorship regime.
