Pro-government mafia leader again threatens exiled journalist, Gülen movement followers
Sedat Peker, a pro-government mafia leader in Turkey, in a street interview aired on TV openly threatened followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in...
Top court’s prosecutor asks for revocation of rulings in prominent journalists’ trial
The chief public prosecutor of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has asked for revocation of the aggravated life sentences handed down to five journalists...
Academic gets suspended sentence for signing peace petition
Istanbul Bilgi University academic and columnist for the Evrensel daily Esra Arsan on Wednesday was handed down a suspended one year, three-month sentence on...
Journalist sentenced to prison for reporting on parliament speaker’s sons’ offshore companies
Former Cumhuriyet reporter Pelin Ünker on Tuesday received a one year, one month and 15 day sentence and was ordered to pay 8,860 Turkish...
Owner of closed Kurdish daily faces 15 years in prison
A court in Diyarbakir on Monday accepted an indictment asking for 15 years in prison for the owner of the now-shut-down Kurdish daily Azadiya...
Former deputy arrested shortly after his release
Former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem, who was released pending trial yesterday, was arrested again by an İstanbul court today.
The İstanbul Chief...
112 journalists given various jail sentences in Turkey in 2018
A total of 520 journalists appeared in court in 2018, and 112 of them were given jail sentences of varying durations including aggravated life,...
Erdoğan’s lawyer demands fine for Halk TV over show critical of president
Hüseyin Aydın, a lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,
has applied to the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to impose
a fine...
Turkish court releases Austrian journalist Max Zirngast from pre-trial detention
An Ankara court on Monday released Austrian journalist Max
Zirngast, who has been in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges,
after accepting an indictment against...
RSF 2018 report: Turkey remains world’s biggest jailer of professional journalists
Turkey continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of professional
journalists according to a report released on Tuesday by Reporters
without Borders (RSF), despite...
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