Turkey’s dissidents in Germany receive threats over Khashoggi’s murder
Dissident Turkish journalists in Germany have received threats on social media over the past week from people inviting them to Turkish consulates, implying they...
US wants Turkey’s so-called audio recording proving Khashoggi’s torture and murder
CIA Director Gina Haspel, in Turkey to investigate the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has sought to hear a purported audio recording of...
RTÜK fines Turkish TV stations $41 million over past decade
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), a TV and radio regulatory watchdog in Turkey, announced on Wednesday that in the last decade --...
Turkish appeals court upholds prison sentences given to 26 journalists over alleged Gülen links
The 2nd Criminal Chamber of the İstanbul Regional Court of Justice has upheld the conviction of 26 journalists, including 19 currently in jail, who...
Turkish police confiscate Kurdish title at book fair in Batman
Turkish police have confiscated a book on a Kurdish uprising on display at a publisher’s stand in the southeastern Turkish city of Batman and...
Turkish President Erdoğan says savage Khashoggi killing was planned
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday there were strong signs Jamal Khashoggi’s savage killing was planned and that attempts to blame it...
Jailed journalist Mustafa Ünal about Turkish gov’t: They are strong, I am right
Mustafa Ünal (50), a veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, said in a letter from İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison,...
47 life sentences sought for critical journalists in Turkey over past 3 months
Various Turkish journalists in the past three months faced 46 aggravated life sentences, one life sentence and 3,023 years, 10 months in prison in...
Switzerland jails a journalist who fled Turkey and applied for asylum
Switzerland has denied the right of asylum to Mustafa Mamay, a Kurdish-Turkish journalist who was sentenced to six years in prison by the Turkish...
Turkish gov’t puts Khashoggi’s fiancée Hatice Cengiz under protection
Turkish authorities have put the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi under 24-hour police protection, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) said on...
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