Journalist gets 8 years, 3 months for alleged terror links
The Muş 2nd High Criminal Court on Friday handed down a sentence of eight years, three months in prison to journalist İdris Sayılğan after his...
Veteran journalist Ilıcak sentenced to 5 years, 10 months over ‘state security’
Veteran journalist Nazlı Ilıcak (75), who has been jailed since August 29, 2016 on trumped-up coup charges, was sentenced in another case to five...
HRW: Terrorism trials in Turkey lack compelling evidence
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Thursday that many terrorism trials in Turkey lack compelling evidence of criminal activity or...
Turkey deports Dutch journalist over ‘national security’ concerns
Turkish authorities on Thursday deported Ans Boersma, a 31-year-old Dutch correspondent for Het Financieele Dagblad (FD), the newspaper confirmed.
Boersma announced the deportation on her Twitter...
Prosecutor seeks imprisonment for online news website owner over Afrin reports
Necla Demir, the owner of online newspaper Gazete Karınca, will be tried on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in stories published by the news...
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...
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