Turkish gov’t blocks access to stories on Paradise Papers related to PM Yıldırım’s sons,...

Access to the news stories covering the the documents of Paradise Papers which are related to Turkish Prime Minister's sons and Turkish President's son-in-law have...

Turkish journalist Şen gets years of prison sentence over being relative of major coup...

Journalist Erdal Şen together with Ali Sami Yıldırım, the two relatives of Turkey’s alleged major coup suspect Adil Öksüz, have been handed down a jail sentence of...

Turkish journalist Bünyamin Aldı faces over 22 years in jail over donation

A young journalist who is a video editor at a national TV station in Turkey has been behind bars for 315 days over a...

Hrant Dink Foundation: Jews, Syrians and Greeks main targets of hate speeches in Turkey

Hate speeches in Turkey have basically targeted Jews, Syrians and Greeks mostly in the period May-August period in 2017, according to a report released...

Freedom House: Turkish gov’t detains tens of thousands arbitrarily over alleged use of ByLock

The US-based think tank Freedom House, which has listed Turkey in his newly released report among the countries in which Internet freedoms are restricted...

Pro-gov’t Doğan Holding’s Ankara representative acquitted by a Turkish court of all charges

A court in İstanbul has acquitted Barbaros Muratoğlu, the Ankara representative of Doğan Holding which has numbers of media outlets, including CNN Turk, Kanal...

Jailed Turkish-German journalist Yücel: Isolation is torture

Turkey’s crackdown on journalists will go down in history as a “disgrace,” German reporter Deniz Yücel told German daily Die Tageszeitung in a Saturday interview, Deutsche Welle...

SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna

Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...

Turkish police detain 10 people over social media messages

Ten people were detained on Monday morning in Ankara as part of an operation into social media launched by the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office,...

Turkish court rules Altan brothers, Ilıcak, others to remain in jail

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Fevzi Yazıcı, who were arrested in September 2016 on...

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