Turkish police raid home of pro-Kurdish Mesopotamia news agency journalist in İzmir
The pro-Kurdish Mesopotamia news agency (MA) reported that Turkish police forces conducted a raid on the house of their reporter for İzmir province, Ruken...
Turkey continues to suppress free speech, trying 1,696 people in 12 months: report
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Jailed Turkish journalist Parıldak says she wants to destroy perception of her as a...
Turkish journalist Ayşenur Parıldak, a former Zaman daily reporter who was given seven years, six months in prison on charges of membership in a...
OSCE/ODIHR highlights anti-democratic pressures during referendum campaign
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Turkish intelligence ordered assassination of exiled journalists Bozkurt and Güven, journalist claims
Independent journalist Erkam Tufan Aytav claimed on his YouTube program on Wednesday that a German woman of Turkish origin was ordered by Turkey’s National...
Turkish journalists union criticizes police officers who threatened journalist
The Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS) at a Wednesday press conference in Diyarbakır protested threats made by the police against journalist Cengiz Anıl Bölükbaşı...
Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences of 7 Kurdish journalists
The Ankara Regional Court of Justice has upheld prison sentences handed down to seven Kurdish journalists on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization,”...
62 journalists killed in 2020, just for doing their jobs: UNESCO
A total of 62 journalists were killed just for doing their jobs in 2020, while more than 1,200 professionals lost their lives the same way...
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...
1,734 arrested, 18,000 on detention list on terror propaganda charges on social media
A total of 1,734 people have been arrested since a failed coup attempt on July 15 while 18,194 others on a detention list on...
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