Panel: Journalism & Repression in Turkey

Reporters in Turkey, once home to a vibrant journalism tradition, today face widespread and growing censorship. "Anti-press measures in Turkey are having a devastating impact on the country's media,” notes the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranks Turkey 149th out of 180 countries in its latest press freedom index, while Freedom House downgraded the country to “Not Free” in terms of press freedoms. A recent Harvard University report found that at least 1,000 journalists lost their jobs since major protests in 2013.

Join the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma at Columbia Journalism School, in partnership with the Peace Islands Institute’s Center for Media Studies, for a lunch-hour conversation featuring leading Turkish journalists Ergun Babahan, Yavuz Baydar, Abdulhamit Bili and Sezin Oney about their work, today’s crisis and the future of press freedom in their country.