Turkey moves to sell seized pro-opposition broadcaster TELE1

Turkish authorities have put the assets of opposition television station TELE1 up for sale, months after the detention of its editor-in-chief and the appointment...

Boğaziçi University rector cancels panel discussion over gov’t critic speaker

Mehmed Özkan, the controversially-appointed rector of Turkey’s prestigious Boğaziçi University has cancelled a panel discussion that was set to host an outspoken government critic, Serra...

Turkey Purge: 1601 people detained, 895 people jailed over alleged Gülen links across Turkey...

Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement  and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...

Members of European Parliament call EU to take harsher stance against Turkish government

Members of European Parliament (EP) have slammed Turkish government's anti-democratic policies and massive human rights violations in the country during a plenary session to...

The Swedish Forum for Human Rights Seminar: Jailed journalists in Turkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7XsrYec2k Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...

Amnesty International: Dissents being ruthlessly suppressed by Turkish gov’t in 2017

A report released by Amnesty International on Thursday reveals that critical voices and dissent were ruthlessly suppressed in Turkey in 2017 and that a...

US Human Rights Report: Turkish gov’t’s prosecution and jailing of journalists hinder freedom of...

The Turkish government’s prosecution of journalists representing major independent newspapers and its jailing of scores of journalists in 2017 hindered freedom of speech, and...

COMMENTARY — Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate

By Abdullah Bozkurt The use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...

Some Turkish books censored after D&R sale to pro-gov’t Turkuaz Group

Some books have been removed from the shelves of Turkey’s largest bookstore chain, D&R, after it was sold last month to the pro-government Turkuvaz...

Turkish gov’t prosecutes 251 people over social media posts in a week

The Turkish government has investigated 1,422 social media accounts and taken legal action against 251 users over the last week (June 11-June 18) on...

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