Turkey arrests former Zaman daily executive on coup charges
An İstanbul court has ruled for the arrest of journalist Mehmet Kamış, the deputy editor-in-chief of a now-closed newspaper in Turkey, on charges of...
Inmates punished for cartoon allegedly insulting Turkish President Erdoğan in prison publication
Six inmates in a prison in the northwestern province of Bolu have been given 10 days of solitary confinement as punishment for allegedly insulting...
Turkish court hands down 27-year sentence to exiled journalist Dündar
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down a prison sentence of 27 years, six months to exiled journalist Can Dündar in a trial concerning...
Hürriyet daily refuses to publish interview with author Pamuk for saying ‘no’ in referendum
One of the leading newspapers in Turkey, the Hürriyet daily, has refused to publish an interview with Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most famous writer and...
Turkish journalist Ufuk Şanlı in jail for his tweet about pro-gov’t businessman
A business journalist who made a career for himself in covering economy, trade and investment has been behind bars for 457 days for commenting...
Turkish gov’t detains 90 people including 4 Kurdish journalists over alleged PKK links
The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 151 people including journalists in operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
Jailed Kurdish journalists indicted on terrorism charges 10 months after detention
Twenty-one people, the vast majority of whom are Kurdish journalists detained in southeastern Diyarbakır province in June 2022, have been indicted on terrorism charges...
34 journalists arrested in less than a year in Turkey: report
Thirty-four journalists have been arrested for their work in the last 11 months as part of separate investigations across Turkey, according to the pro-Kurdish...
Turkish prosecutor investigates journalist for calling Iranian regime ‘bloody’
Mehmet Sanrı, a correspondent in İstanbul who works for the Erbil-based Kurdistan TV, found himself the target of a Turkish prosecutor for calling the...
Thousands detained or deported at Turkish airports for their social media posts
Thousands of people have been detained or deported at airports by Turkish authorities because of their social media posts, Independent Turkish reported, citing lawyers...
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