Architects chamber executives get suspended sentences due to award to Kurdish TV
A Turkish court has handed down a suspended sentence to six executives of an architects chamber in Ankara on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda...
Turkish government puts up for sale properties of 9 TV, radio stations seized from...
The properties of the 9 of the media outlets which Turkish government has seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale...
Erdoğan blocks news about himself, his family, his senior officials: report
Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
Doğan news agency fires reporter who defended Hakan Şükür against gov’t crackdown
Pro-government Doğan news agency has dismissed its reporter Kadir Çetinçalı since he defended Hakan Şükür during a general assembly meeting to expel former football star...
Cases of Turkish journalists before ECtHR drag on as they languish in jail: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has yet to deliver verdicts on the cases of dozens of journalists from Turkey, many of whom...
Turkey convicts 2 Kurdish journalists of insult, libel
Courts in eastern Turkey have convicted and handed down sentences to Kurdish journalists Hacı Boğatekin and Özgür Boğatekin, their lawyer announced on social media.
Hacı...
Police detain 6 journalists working for Kurdish media in western Turkey
Turkish special operations police on Tuesday morning detained six journalists, most of whom work for pro-Kurdish media outlets, in simultaneous raids in the western...
Voice of America reporter Arif Aslan arrested in Turkey
Arif Aslan, a correspondent for the Voice of America (VOA) Kurdish service, was arrested today in the eastern Turkish province of Van.
He was following...
Report: Turkish government detained 52 woman journalists in 2017
Fifty-two woman journalists were detained and 9 of them were sent to prison across Turkey in 2017, according to report revealed by Mesopotamia Woman Journalists...
Turkey blocks access to DW domains aimed at circumventing censorship
An Ankara court has blocked access to two domains operated by Deutsche Welle to publish news after its Turkish service was censored by authorities,...
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