Turkish court gives jail sentence for human rights activist Gergerlioğlu
A Turkish court has sentenced writer and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu to two-and-a half-years in prison for anti-war comments posted on social...
Turkish gov’t sentences four journalists up to 9 years in prison
A Turkish court in Adana province has handed down prison sentences varying from 7 years, 6 months to 9 years to four journalists on charges...
Turkey’s main opposition leader slams life sentences handed down to prominent journalists
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticized the handing down of aggravated life sentences to three prominent journalists...
Turkish journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılıç released from jail, put into house arrest
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court on Tuesday ruled to release jailed Yeni Asya daily editor Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was imprisoned on March...
Turkish police detain two Kurdish journalists in İstanbul
The editor-in-chief of pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency Elif Çetiner and journalist Melike Ceyhan have reportedly been detained as they were covering a report in...
Jailed Turkish journalist’s daughter Sanem Altan says justice determined in the presidential palace
Sanem Altan, the daughter of Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan who has been sentenced to life in prison for allegedly "violating the constitution," said in...
Sarajevo reverses decision to honour Turkish novelist Pamuk
A council in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo this week reversed a decision to make Turkish Nobel literature laureate Orhan Pamuk an honorary citizen,...
Speculated ‘dirty deal’ for journalist Yücel’s release gives its first fruit, Turkey’s Erdoğan to...
A speculated "dirty deal" between the Turkish government and the German administration over the surprise release of Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel has given its...
Turkish gov’t blocks access to Furkan news portal on alleged terror charges
Access to all social media accounts and websites belonging to the faith-based Furkan Foundation, which has been critical to the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Int’l press, human rights bodies slam Turkish court’s ruling of aggravated life sentences for...
International press and human rights organisations have slammed a decision rendered by a Turkish court on Friday of aggravated life imprisonment for prominent journalists...
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