Turkish court rejects request for acquittal in journalists’ trial over İmamoğlu protest coverage
A Turkish court on Friday rejected a request for immediate acquittal in the trial of eight journalists prosecuted for covering protests that erupted after...
Journalists Müyesser Yıldız and İsmail Dükel face up to 31 years, 6 months in...
A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a jail sentence of up to 31-and-a-half years for journalists Müyesser Yıldız, Ankara news director of the ultranationalist OdaTV...
Turkish authorities must release Mehmet Aslan and refrain from arresting journalists based on vague...
Turkish authorities must immediately release Mehmet Aslan, a reporter for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, and refrain from arresting members of the press in...
3 journalists released after 3 days in police custody in eastern Turkey
Three journalists who were detained in the eastern province of Van following raids on their houses earlier this week have been released from detention,...
FM Çavuşoğlu: Not a single journalist imprisoned for reporting
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has told Spanish media that not a single journalist is imprisoned in Turkey due to their reporting and that...
Turkey’s media watchdog fines 2 TV stations due to critical reporting
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), Turkey’s broadcasting and streaming regulator, has fined two TV stations due to their content critical of ruling...
Turkish woman arrested for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan in street interview
A Turkish woman who criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a street interview has been arrested on charges of insulting the president and...
Pro-gov’t Türkiye daily fires veteran Erdoğanist columnist over his ‘new coup’ analysis
Nuri Elibol, a veteran columnist and Ankara representative of pro-government Türkiye daily was fired from the paper following an article he wrote over a...
Turkish government detains journalist again 2 days after release
Former Zaman journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya has been taken into custody again two days after he was released from an-eight-month-long imprisonment on Saturday.
Zaman’s former local...
CPJ calls on Turkey to stop equating journalism with terrorism
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday condemned a Turkish court’s decision earlier in the day to sentence 25 journalists to prison on...
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