Journalist allegedly beaten, mistreated in police custody: report
Journalist Sedat Yılmaz, who was detained on Saturday in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır, was allegedly mistreated and beaten while in police custody, the...
Turkey vows to persists on censorship of Wikipedia
Ömer Fatih Sayan, the head of Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), said on Wednesday that it is impossible to grant access to...
Turkey’s top appeals court says former interior minister should pay damages to academic over...
The Supreme Court of Appeals has said in a judgment that former interior minister Süleyman Soylu should pay non-pecuniary damages to academic Baskın Oran...
Panel at UN Human Rights Council calls on Turkish gov’t to release jailed journalists
International human rights and press freedom organizations called on the Turkish government to immediately release imprisoned journalists during the 38th session of the UN...
Turkish journalists and academics Alpay and Altan demand equal treatment before the law
Journalist and academic Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, who were imprisoned by Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Boğaziçi University rector cancels panel discussion over gov’t critic speaker
Mehmed Özkan, the controversially-appointed rector of Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University has cancelled a panel discussion that was set to host an outspoken government critic, Serra...
At least 40 Turkish journalists appeared in court in March: opposition lawmaker
At least 40 journalists appeared before a judge and seven were detained in Turkey in March, according to a report released Thursday by an...
Prison parole boards are acting like ‘parallel courthouses,’ journalist says
Ferhat Çiftçi, a Kurdish journalist who was recently released from prison, said prison monitoring boards in Turkey act like “parallel courthouses” when deciding on...
Sweden can’t call itself a democratic nation if it fulfils Turkey’s demand to hand...
“Under no circumstances can Sweden fulfill Turkey’s demand to deport exiled Turkish journalist Bülent Keneş and continue calling itself a democratic nation governed by...
Most Turks feel anxious about expressing their views on social media: survey
An overwhelming majority of Turks feel unsure and anxious when they post messages on social media, an apparent result of increasing government scrutiny of...
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