Hakan Tosun, a 50 year-old Turkish journalist, died on October 13 three days after he was assaulted in a street attack in Istanbul. Two people have been arrested. The motive for the attack remains unclear, but several political groups have suggested that it may be linked to Tosun鈥檚 work. He reported on human rights and environmental protection.
Tosun’s case starkly illustrates the dangers faced by journalists in . Reporters Without Borders ranks Turkey countries worldwide for after roughly have been killed, detained or reported missing there since 2013.
And during the latest democratic crackdown, which followed the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and leading Turkish opposition figure in March 2025, further arrests .
Working as a journalist in Turkey has long been dangerous. Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian editor of the Agos newspaper, was shot dead in Istanbul in 2007. Retrials led to the conviction of multiple officials and accomplices, with handed down in February 2025.
In February 2022, , the editor of a local news outlet called Ses Kocaeli, was also killed in an ambush outside his office in the city of 陌zmit. The gunman, Ramazan Özkan, and the instigator, a businessman called Burhan Polat, from Turkish courts in 2023.
Beyond these killings, there have been high-profile cases of arrests and persecution. Laws have also been introduced to curb press freedom, including one in 2022 to sentence people found guilty of intentionally publishing disinformation to three years in prison.
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