Report: Turkish people prefer closed messaging services for sharing news
Mainstream media in Turkey are losing their monopoly in agenda setting with the emergence of digital news sites, while fear of state surveillance has...
Turkish court postpones 46 Kurdish journalists’ trial until September
A Turkish court on Friday postponed until September the trial of 46 Kurdish journalists, known to the public as the "KCK Press Trial," while...
Turkish gov’t agency puts assets of 11 seized media outlets up for sale
Turkey’s Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) has put property belonging to 11 media outlets that were closed down by the Turkish government under the...
Turkish court upholds travel ban for Turkish-German journalist Tolu
Turkish-German journalist Meşale Tolu will not be allowed to leave Turkey, where she faces charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda, a Turkish court has decided.
The...
Jailed Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan acquitted in Erdoğan insult case
Famous Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan, who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, has...
EP’s Harms calls on ECtHR to immediately process complaints of Turkish journalists Sabuncu, Şık
Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group, on Thursday called on the European Court of...
AI: Chilling climate of fear sweeping Turkey as gov’t abuses state of emergency
"A chilling climate of fear is sweeping across Turkish society as the Turkish government continues to use the state of emergency to shrink the...
OSCE’s Désir calls on Turkey to release all journalists
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has called on Turkey to release...
Turkish court sentences 14 Cumhuriyet daily staff members to prison over terror charges
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 14 staff members of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet to prison on terrorism charges and acquitted three, one of...
Turkey’s chief justice says not implementing top court’s rulings out of the question
At a meeting attended by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s Chief Justice Zühtü Arslan said the rulings of the Constitutional Court concerning the...
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