Secret witness says ISIL running bookstore in Turkey’s Gaziantep province
A secret witness mentioned in an indictment drafted regarding an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Gaziantep last year has...
Turkish gov’t to sentence 24 Kurdish journalists up to 15-year jail term
Lawsuits have been filed against 24 Kurdish journalists who had been detained during a raid on August 28, 2016 on the office of Kurdish...
‘Turkey’s clandestine deep state gang takes revenge from prominent journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan’
Yalçın Ergündoğan, a columnist for online news portal in Turkish, Artı Gerçek, wrote that Turkey's clandestine deep state gang, Ergenekon, takes revenge from Ahmet...
Peace academics in exile sued by Turkish gov’t over ‘propaganda of terror organization’
A lawsuit has been filed by the İstanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office against the 100 academics, who took refuge in Germany, over allegedly "propagandizing the...
Merkel urges Erdoğan to uphold freedom of opinion, press
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she stressed the importance of press freedom and freedom of opinion in Turkey during talks with President Recep...
137 press freedom violations recorded in Turkey in 2025: report
Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) documented 137 press freedom violations in Turkey in 2025, the third highest among EU member states and candidate countries,...
Turkish cartoonist detained over alleged insult of President Erdoğan
Turkish cartoonist Öznur Kalender has been detained on accusations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a cartoon, the Halk TV news website reported.
Kalender...
Turkey blocks X accounts of pro-Kurdish news outlets, journalists and civil society groups
Turkish authorities on Friday blocked access to the X accounts of several pro-Kurdish news outlets, journalists and civil society organizations, the Mezopotamya News Agency...
Turkey’s top court annuls state of emergency decree that closed down media outlets
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has canceled an article of a government decree issued in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016 that led...
Mezopotamya news agency reporter detained in SE Turkey
Turkish police have detained journalist Emrullah Acar, a reporter for the Mezopotamya news agency, in an early morning raid in southeastern Şanlıurfa province, Turkish...
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