Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...
Turkish uplink technician Cuma Kaya faces life time jail for providing service to critical...
A Turkish media worker, who has been jailed by Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for almost 16 months,...
Turkish TV network executive Muhammed Büyükçıngıl jailed for subscribing to critical daily.
A Turkish journalist and media executive has been behind bars for 301 days in Turkey over his subscription to a critical newspaper that was...
Turkish government releases German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel
A Turkish court, İstanbul 32nd High Criminal Court, has accepted an indictment seeking up to 18 years in jail for German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel...
YouTube journalist, man who read a poem in street interview arrested for insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of YouTube journalist Hasan Köksoy and Halil Kürklü, who recited a poem during one of Köksoy’s...
Jailed journalist faces up to 3 years in prison for ‘disseminating misleading information’
A Turkish prosecutor has opened a second criminal case against jailed journalist Fatih Altaylı, seeking up to three years in prison on charges of...
66 face legal action over social media posts about Turkey’s wildfires
Legal action has been taken against 66 people due to their social media posts about the wildfires that have been ravaging Turkey’ southern and...
Editor of Kurdish news agency acquitted of terrorism charges
A Turkish court has acquitted journalist Sedat Yılmaz, editor of the Mezopotamya news agency, of terrorism charges related to his alleged links to the...
Turkey’s journalists systematically targeted because of their work
Journalists who fled Turkey to escape persecution under the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan discussed threats to media freedom in light of what has...
Turkish authorities should stop harassing Mesopotamia News Agency and release detained reported Dindar Karataş:...
Turkish authorities should stop harassing journalists working for the Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) and immediately release reporter Dindar Karataş, who was arrested on November...
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