15 students of the Department for Media and Communication from the Izmir Economics University visited the bianet offices on 8 March.

Executive Editor Erhan Üstündağ informed the students about the bianet project, its founding, the different stages it passed through and the targets in current journalism.

Freedom of Expression Editor Erol Önderoğlu gave an insight on the political development in Turkey and the parallel prevalence of restrictions related to freedom of press and expression. Önderoğlu gave examples of how these restrictions became ever more distinct in recent years in times when state institutions have been or seem to be in conflict with each other.

Editors Üstündağ and Önderoğlu answered questions of the students later on.

The group of the Izmir Economics University included the following students:

Selin Bayraktar (4^th year), Mert Özcan (4^th year), Naz Arman (4^th year), Begüm Bilgin (3^rd year), Faruk Tan (3^rd year), Mustafa Kolcu (3^rd year), Feyzi Mirhanoğlu (3^rd year), Jülide Çalışır (3^rd year), Merve Bozkan (3^rd year), Hakan Gözütok (3^rd year), Elif Egeli (4^th year), Gözde Kamay (4^th year), Gizem Güngör (3^rd year), Cem Dumlupınar (4^th year) ve Dorukhan Barkan (3^rd year).(BÇ/VK)