Journalist given suspended sentence on Erdoğan insult charges
An İstanbul court has handed down a suspended sentence to a journalist on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan due to his criticism...
Turkish journalists constantly risk their lives, says HDP deputy co-chair
Turkish journalists risk their lives every day by simply trying to do their job, Tayip Temel, deputy co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party...
Erdoğan praises Merkel for not criticizing Turkey’s policies
Amid tension between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that he was hopeful about Turkey’s relations with Germany...
Erdoğan cleric: Right to life will be granted to ‘no’ voters, too
Hayrettin Karaman, a leading theologian and issuer of fatwas, or religious edicts, for ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) circles and Turkey's autocratic President...
Turkish presidential candidate: TV staff fired for 10 second coverage of opposition rally
Turkish opposition İYİ Party leader and presidential candidate Meral Akşener on Monday said that staff members at a TV station who aired 10 seconds...
Jailed journalist Tunca Öğreten gets married in prison
Diken news website editor Tunca Öğreten, who was arrested in Jan. 17 for publishing stories on the leaked emails of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
Journalist Erdal Şen and his wife behind bars due to Turkey’s collective punishment
In an example of guilt by association and blood, a veteran Turkish journalist and his wife have been languishing behind bars for 440 days...
Turkish journalist detained after reporting alleged assault of nationalist party official
A Turkish journalist was detained Wednesday after publishing a report alleging that a local official from the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) was assaulted...
Turkish gov’t detains yet another pro-Kurdish journalist
The Turkish government has detained pro-Kurdish journalist Çağdaş Kaplan, editor-in-chief of the Yeni Yaşam newspaper, in İstanbul, according to a report by the Mezopotamya...
Erdoğan’s most favorite columnist: Vatican uses ‘evicted jinns in intelligence services’
Radical Islamist Yeni Akit daily's columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak, who is knwon as one of the most favorite columnist of Turkey's autocratic President and Justice...
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