Yet another opposition leader in Turkey vows to send Syrian refugees back home

Another leader from a nationalist Turkish party, the İYİ (Good) Party, has vowed to send the Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey back...

25 journalists jailed in Turkey in first quarter of 2025: report

The Turkish government intensified its crackdown on the media in the first quarter of 2025, jailing 25 journalists and launching dozens of prosecutions, Turkish...

Veteran actor appears in court on Erdoğan insult charges

Prominent Turkish actor Genco Erkal, 83, appeared before an İstanbul court on Thursday on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which carries a...

Amnesty International Director Dalhuisen denies Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu’s remarks

Amnesty International’s Europe Director John Dalhuisen has reacted to the statements made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and said that “Çavuşoğlu’s assertion that...

Int’l bar associations urge Turkish gov’t to release all legal professionals and journalists

Several international bar associations have urged the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to unconditionally release and drop charges against all legal...

Kurdish language teacher suffers threats and insults on social media

Mizgin Yalçın, a teacher of the Kurdish language based in Diyarbakır, received numerous insulting and threatening messages on social media after she shared a...

Pro-Kurdish journalists say Turkish gov’t asked them to work as spies

Pro-Kurdish journalists Durket Süren and Nurcan Yalçın, who were reporters for the Jinnews news agency, have said they were asked while in police custody...

Investigative journalist reporting from exile targeted by pro-Erdoğan daily

Cevheri Güven, an investigative journalist in exile whose videos on YouTube in which he talks about the Turkish government’s corruption and murky relations attract...

IPI – MLSA study: Turkish journalists convicted for their work

According to a trial monitoring study conducted in Turkey by the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and the International Press Institute (IPI), journalistic...

Turkey’s disinformation law used to charge at least 83 journalists since 2022, data show

Turkey has charged at least 83 journalists a total of 114 times under its disinformation law since it took effect in October 2022, according...
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