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Almost Four Decades On, IPI Calls for Justice for Slain Turkish Editor

IPI Turkey Head Urges Authorities to Address ‘Unanswered Questions’ 

Almost four decades after Abdi Ipekci, editor-in-chief of the Turkish daily Milliyet, was shot dead in his car on 1 February 1971 by Mehmet Ali Agca, a right-wing militant who later escaped from jail and attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981, IPI is still  ...

Iran Hands Journalist Seven-Year Prison Sentence, Opposition Websites Report

VIENNA, 5 Jan. 2010 - A high-profile journalist who has criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s economic strategies has been sentenced to  ...

Kyrgyz Journalist Dies in Kazakhstan after Being Thrown from Window

VIENNA, 22 Dec. 2009 – Kyrgyz journalist Gennady Pavlyuk died this morning in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Almaty, Kazakhstan from  ...

Three Killed in Pakistan Press Club Bombing

VIENNA, 22 Dec. 2009 - At least three people were killed on Tuesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan when a suicide bomber detonated explosives  ...

Editor Killed By Gunman in Western Turkey

The editor-in-chief of western Turkish newspaper Güney Marmara’da Yaşam (Life in Southern Marmara) was ambushed and shot while leaving his office on  ...

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