Turkey ranks 150th out of 180 in the classification made by Reporters Sans Frontières on freedom of press.
In the last years, the number of cases of censorship, detentions, newspapers closure have intensified and the control by the government has become stricter and stricter.
A central issue for the democratic future of one of the key countries in the Middle East. The speakers will be Marco Ansaldo, special envoy of the newspaper Repubblica, and Yavuz Baydar, one of the most renowned Turkish journalists, founder of P24, a platform monitoring the freedom of Turkish media.