İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği (İFÖD) conducted an online capacity building program program entitled “Internet and Freedom of Expression for Young Lawyers” between the 1-6 September 2020 under the support of Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Fund. The program was carried out with 70 young lawyers from 27 different cities in order to raise their awareness on the internet and freedom of expression and to improve their legal skills in these fields.
At the end of the September 2020 program session, an online panel entitled “Conflicting Rights on Social Media: Defamation, Threats and Freedom of Expression” was organized and moderated by Yaman Akdeniz. The panelists were Nevşin Mengü (Journalist), Burcu Karakaş (Journalist) and Milena Büyüm (Amnesty International) who experienced defamation and threats many times due to their ideas, speeches, posts, gender and so forth on social media. The panel was also live-streamed from the YouTube account of the Association for reaching more people.