IPI General Assembly Resolution 2017: Turkey
(World News Austria)

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 66th Annual General Assembly during the IPI World Congress on May 20, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany adopted by unanimous vote a resolution calling on Turkey to free imprisoned journalists and to restore judicial independence and the rule of law. In the wake of the bloody 15 July 2016 coup attempt that Turkey`s government blames on U.S.-based cleric and former-ally-turned-rival Fethullah Gülen, authorities have pursued an unprecedented and wide-ranging crackdown on perceived critics and opponents in which hundreds...