‘Visually approving of terrorism’ among reasons for fines on 3 Turkish TV stations
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has imposed a fine on three TV stations critical of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for reasons that include...
Journalist detained at Ankara airport over earthquake coverage
Journalist Fırat Bulut, from the Yeşil Gazete news website, was detained at the airport in Ankara on Thursday over his coverage of recent earthquakes...
Turkey issues arrest warrant for Die Welt journalist Yücel
A Turkish court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for Die Welt columnist Deniz Yücel, who is being tried in absentia on charges of...
Activist starts serving prison sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
Well-known activist, writer and journalist Celaletttin Can has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda for...
Access bans imposed on news reports mostly about Erdoğan, family in 2022: report
Turkish authorities banned access to more than 40,000 URLs in 2022, with news reports about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his family at the...
Journalist appears in court after covering allegations of corruption in judiciary
An editor for the Gerçek Gündem news website who reported news and shared social media posts about an alleged bribery network in the judiciary...
Local journalist gets prison sentence for ‘insulting’ his attacker
A local journalist in eastern Turkey who was attacked by two people connected to the mayor of a Justice and Development Party (AKP)-run municipality...
Kurdish journalist released from pretrial detention 306 days after arrest
A Turkish court on Thursday decided for the release from pretrial detention of a Kurdish journalist 306 days after she was arrested on terrorism-related...
2 journalists detained in house raids in Turkey
Eight people including two journalists have been detained in house raids in the predominantly Kurdish province of Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey, the Turkish Minute...
Top court finds public benefit in report on terror-linked ‘gov’t’ award to state-run TRT
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found “public benefit” in a 2019 report by the sendika.org news website concerning an award Turkey’s public broadcaster had received...
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