Erdoğan files criminal complaint against columnist, alleging instigation of coup

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lawyer has filed a criminal complaint against journalist Ragıp Zarakolu for a column he wrote, accusing him of “instigating...

Turkish authorities refuse to release political prisoners who have served their time

Turkish authorities are refusing to release thousands of political prisoners who have served their required time in jail, the tr724 news website reported. Journalist Hanım...

RSF: Turkey is the world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists

Turkey has moved up three places to 154th in Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) 2020 World Press Freedom Index, which examines the status of press...

‘Not just coronavirus but injustice also kills,’ jailed journalist says

Büşra Erdal, a jailed journalist struggling with a judicial system that has deteriorated since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, said in a...

Turkish Embassy spied on critical journalist in Denmark, helped build false criminal case, secret...

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen profiled and monitored a Denmark-based Turkish journalist who was critical of the government in Ankara and had been...

Erdoğan takes legal action against TV anchor over tweet about a speech

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a criminal complaint with İstanbul prosecutors against Fox TV news anchor Fatih Portakal, due to a tweet...

PACE rapporteur calls on Spain, Turkey to include opponents, journalists in prison amnesty

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) rapporteur Boriss Cilevics has called on Spain and Turkey to include imprisoned politicians in early releases prompted by...

Amnesty, 26 NGOs call on Turkish gov’t to release political prisoners amid coronavirus crisis

Amnesty International and 26 other rights groups and civil society organizations from Turkey and around the world on Monday released a joint statement calling...

Another journalist arrested for revealing information about intel officer killed in Libya

Murat Ağırel, a journalist from the ultranationalist Yeniçağ daily, has been arrested for revealing information about a Turkish intelligence officer slain in Libya, according...

Journalists detained for revealing name of Turkish intel officer killed in Libya

Two journalists from the OdaTV news website were detained on Wednesday by police due to an investigation into a news report revealing the identity...
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