Exiled journos launch Turkish news portal in Germany
A group of exiled Turkish journalists including targeted journalist Can Dündar has launched a Germany-based online news portal titled “Özgürüz" (We Are Free) on...
Gun shootings target opposition daily Cumhuriyet
An unidentified person who drove in a taxi by the building of opposition daily Cumhuriyet in Şişli district of İstanbul shot at the wall...
RSF reiterates call on Turkish-Swedish journalist Yalçın held in Spain under Turkish request to...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has reiterated its appeal to the Spanish authorities not to extradite Hamza Yalçın to Turkey. A Swedish journalist of Turkish...
As trial nears end, jailed Turkish journalists say they are being punished for doing...
The trial of 29 journalists charged with membership in a terrorist organization resumed in İstanbul on Wednesday, with the journalists delivering their final defense...
Kurdish journalist from Turkey given ‘Human Rights Defenders at Risk’ award in Dublin
Irish human rights organization Front Line Defenders has named Turkey's Kurdish journalist Nurcan Baysal its Global Laureate for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for...
Turkey’s agriculture minister smacks journalist over a question
Turkish Agriculture Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba slapped a journalist who asked a question about his security detail in Şanlıurfa province, the online news outlet...
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 court rules to keep Zaman columnist Ali Ünal in jail
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
IFEX launches campaign encouraging people to share Erdoğan cartoon
IFEX, a global human rights network of organisations defending the right to freedom of expression and information, has launched a campaign encouraging people to share...
Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan daily declares Trump, Pence ‘lunatics of a deviant sect’
The pro-Erdoğan Turkish Yeni Şafak daily claimed on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump and US Vice President Mike Pence are pondering a “crusade,”...
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