Turkish court rules to keep Zaman columnist Ali Ünal in jail
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
Economy writer Ugur Gürses leaves Turkey’s Hürriyet daily after takeover
Uğur Gürses, an award-winning Turkish columnist, has left the Hürriyet daily following the publication’s takeover by a business group with close ties to Turkish...
Kurdish journalist/artist Zehra Doğan sends letter of gratitude to Banksy from Turkish prison
Imprisoned Kurdish-Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan has expressed her gratitude for a tribute by a painter in New York as well as revealing...
Turkish journalist Böken transferred to prison 250 kilometers away from family
Ali Ahmet Böken (46), a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who was sentenced in April 2018 to nine years, nine months in prison...
Turkish court acquits Cumhuriyet journalist Gül of ‘revealing state secrets’
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Cumhuriyet daily journalist Erdem Gül of charges of “revealing state secrets” in a June 12,...
Turkey’s Saturday Mothers meet for 649th time to demand justice for their disappeared children
The mothers of Kurds who have disappeared in Turkey staged their weekly sit-in at Galatasaray Square on İstanbul's İstiklal Avenue for the 694th time...
Staff of Turkey’s state-run TRT briefly detained in Greece
Staff members of Turkey's public TV broadcaster TRT were briefly detained in the Greek city of Alexandroupolis late Saturday.
According to a report by Turkey's...
Turkey’s confiscation of media companies taken to international tribunal
The Turkish government’s seizure of independent media companies is to be challenged in two international cases on the grounds that the multi-billion expropriations violate...
EFJ: Conviction of Turkey’s Zaman journalists a politically motivated decision
"Prosecuting workers solely on the basis of their work is not based on fact but is a politically motivated decision," the European Federation of...
Turkish journalist Coşkun faces 3 years in prison over report
An İstanbul prosecutor presented his final opinion to a court on Tuesday in a case against journalist Canan Coşkun, demanding up to three years’...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...