Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen: Zaman daily has no ties with terrorism
Jailed veteran journalist İbrahim Karayeğen (52), a night-shift editor at Zaman newspaper, one-time Turkey’s largest circulated newspaper before the government unlawful takeover and closure...
Turkish prosecutor launches probe into FOX TV anchor over critical report on Mersin hospital
A Turkish public prosecutor’s office in İstanbul has launched an investigation into prominent news anchor Fatih Portakal, who presents FOX TV news, due to...
Turkish prison authorities refuse jailed journalist access to Cumhuriyet daily, saying it supports terror
Authorities at Turkey's Menemen R Type Prison in İzmir have rejected a request of visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat, who has been in jail...
69-year-old Turkish cartoonist to serve 14 months in prison for insulting Erdoğan
Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe, 69, has been arrested after a jail sentence he was given on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...
Turkey’s agriculture minister smacks journalist over a question
Turkish Agriculture Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba slapped a journalist who asked a question about his security detail in Şanlıurfa province, the online news outlet...
Free Journalists Initiative says files opened against 37 journalists across Turkey in May
The Free Journalists Initiative (Özgür Gazeteciler İnisiyatifi, ÖGİ) has reported that files were opened against 37 journalists across Turkey in May.
The ÖGİ stated in...
Turkish public TV allocates 105 minutes to President Erdoğan, 18 seconds to HDP’s Demirtaş...
Turkey's state-run broadcasting company TRT has allocated 105 minutes of airtime to Turkey's incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the candidate of the ruling Justice...
Turkish court sentences singer to 12 months in prison for allegedly insulting Erdoğan in...
Composer Erdal Güney was sentenced by a Turkish court to nearly 12 months in prison for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a...
Two members of Turkish TV watchdog apply to YSK demanding removal of TRT head...
Two members of Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) have applied to the country’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) seeking the removal of public...
Last defence of jailed journalist Ünal: Remember me as the man advocating a Quran...
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the now-shuttered Zaman daily, stated in his last defence before the court,...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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