A student of fine arts jailed over charge of ‘insulting’ Turkey’s President Erdoğan
Gizem Yerik, as student from the Department of Fine Arts at Bursa's Uludağ University was arrested again on Thursday as her sentence over charge of...
Sweden Deeply Concerned About Rights Violations In Turkey
Swedish government on Wednesday expressed its deep concerns on backslide of human rights, rule of law and crackdown on the opposition and media in...
Jailed Turkish journalist Gündem to appear in court for first time in 9 months
Jailed Turkish journalist Mehmet Gündem, who was arrested in November 2017 on terror charges, will appear in court for the first time in the...
Turkey orders blocking of access to jailed journalist’s YouTube channel
A Turkish court has ordered the blocking of access to the YouTube channel of journalist Fatih Altaylı, who is currently being held in prison,...
Opposition MP: 5 journalists assaulted in first 15 days of 2021 due to lack...
An opposition lawmaker has revealed that five members of the press were assaulted on the street in the first 15 days of 2021, mainly...
OSCE calls on Turkey to halt purge against critical voices
Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representative on freedom of the media, on Wednesday displayed a strong reaction to...
Turkey’s media watchdog warns broadcasters against personal comments on mayor’s detention
In a move seen by many as an act of intimidation and censorship, Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has...
US Congressmen urge Trump to press Turkish President on human rights
Members of the US Congress have sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to press visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on...
Closed DİHA’s journalists Güzüpek and Ertaş detained in Turkey’s Diyarbakır
Zekeriya Güzüpek, the chairman of the now-closed Dicle news agency (DİHA), a pro-Kurdish news agency and journalist Mehmet Ali Ertaş, an editor for DİHA's...
Turkish gov’t ready to block ‘abnormal’ social media messages on election day
The Turkish government is preparing to block “abnormal” social media messages during elections on June 24, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday.
According to the...
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