Concern mounts about possible Turkish law on media funding
Press freedom groups expressed concern Friday about comments by Turkish officials concerning possible legislation to regulate foreign funding for media and the dissemination of...
Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş granted 2021 Human Rights Award by German city
A city in Germany has announced that it will grant its 2021 Human Rights Award to Selahattin Demirtaş, an opposition Kurdish politician who has...
Turkey building enormous wall on Iranian border to fend off illegal migrants
Turkey has been making progress in its plan to build a wall on its Iranian border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings, migrant...
ByLock was used as pretext to arrest critics of Erdoğan gov’t, ex-MP claims
A former Turkish lawmaker claimed that, in the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt, Turkish government arrested its critics under the pretext of alleged...
Teachers fleeing Ankara’s crackdown to be deported to Bulgaria by Germany, fear possible extradition...
A German court has rejected the asylum applications of two Turkish teachers who worked for schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Vietnam, ruling...
ECtHR rules Bulgaria violated rights of Turkish journalist who was deported despite seeking asylum
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Bulgaria violated the rights of a Turkish journalist who had fled Ankara’s crackdown...
Erdoğan’s communications chief signals new regulation on foreign funding of media outlets
A new regulation will be implemented for media outlets that receive financial support from overseas, Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said in response to...
Int’l associations condemn police attack on journalists during Suruç protests
The International Press Institute (IPI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday condemned Turkish police violence in İstanbul and İzmir against journalists...
Hate speech against refugees increases on Turkish social media as a new wave of...
Hate speech against refugees on Turkish social media has increased recently, with a new wave of refugee arrivals in Turkey starting as the Taliban...
Families and inmates mark fourth Eid without contact visitation
Inmates and their families have voiced protests as contact visitation in Turkish prisons was not allowed for the fourth religious holiday in a row...
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