Turkish court hands down longer prison sentence in retrial of Kurdish journalist
A court in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday sentenced Kurdish journalist Perihan Kaya to more than 18 months in prison on terrorism-related charges in a...
Turkish journalist faces up to 5 years in prison over social media posts
Turkish prosecutors have indicted journalist Sedef Kabaş on charges of “inciting crime” in her social media posts, the Birgün daily reported.
The indictment seeks a...
Turkish journalist faces over 19 years on alleged insult of Erdoğan, disinformation charges
A Turkish prosecutor has sought a prison sentence of more than 19 years for journalist Alican Uludağ over social media posts that allegedly insulted...
Prosecutor cites Twitter messages as terror evidence for critical journalists
In the most bizarre case ever seen in Turkey against 29 indicted journalists, Turkish prosecutor cited Tweets and Retweets amounting legitimate criticisms as evidence...
Jailed cartoonist receives more sentence due to a letter he sent to HDP’s Demirtaş
Jailed cartoonist Melih Gürler was given a 10 month prison sentence by a court over his allegedly insulting expressions in a letter he wrote...
OSCE, UN media freedom watchdogs call on Turkey to release jailed journalists
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and United Nations officials for media freedom on Tuesday called on Turkey to release six...
Jailed Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel taken out of solitary confinement
Imprisoned Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel has reportedly been taken out of solitary confinement. Germany's Minister of Justice, Heiko Maas said that “Finally some things...
CoE’s Jagland criticises Turkish gov’t over massive human rights violations
The Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland has criticised Turkish government's massive human rights violations under the state of emergency during a speech...
Turkish academic Çalışkan sentenced to 18 months in prison over Gülen propaganda
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10, 2017 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics and later released under...
Turkish opposition leader defies media embargo on her presidential campaign
Meral Akşener, the İYİ Party candidate for Turkey’s presidential election on June 24, challenged the lack of media coverage of her campaign, saying she...
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