Businessman battling cancer imprisoned for links to Gülen movement
Businessman Ali Kara, 64, was imprisoned in November for affiliation with the Gülen movement despite suffering from lymphoma and diabetes, Bold Medya reported.
Kara had...
HDP’s presidential candidate Demirtaş: I am a revolutionary, not a victim
"I am not a victim here. As one of the representatives of the liberation struggle I am a revolutionary who has been taken hostage...
Turkey’s RTÜK sanctions Netflix, local streaming platforms over ‘immoral content’
Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has imposed administrative sanctions on Netflix, MUBI and BluTV for hosting content deemed immoral, Turkish Minute reported.
RTÜK...
Turkish courts handed down 27 years in total to 60 journalists last month: report
Turkish courts handed down a total of 27 years in prison to 60 journalists last month, according to the 2022 September Press Freedom Report.
According...
Woman speaks out about humiliating experiences during arrest and her children’s trauma
Hacer Koç, 44, one of the first women to come forward to share her experience of an unlawful strip-search in prison, talked to Bold...
Mavi Marmara victim files compensation suit against Turkish Finance Ministry
One of the victims of a 2010 Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara humanitarian aid ship has filed a lawsuit for compensation against the...
Turkish broadcasting watchdog targets street interviews for alleged misinformation
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has announced that it is keeping a close eye on street interviews for allegedly...
Turkish gov’t sentences journalist Türfent to 8 years and 9 months in prison
Journalist Nedim Türfent received threats of execution during the period of the curfews and has been in prison for 19 months for his journalistic...
İstanbul court gives 18 months jail term for journalist Çelikkan, 15 months for academic...
Journalist and author Murat Çelikkan, who joined ‘the Editor-in-Chief on Watch’ campaign in solidarity with the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily, which was later shut...
Turkish dean dismissed after allowing opposition candidate onto Cerrahpaşa campus
Alaattin Duran, the dean of İstanbul University's Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, was removed from his job several hours after Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)...
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