Student given house arrest for allegedly ‘insulting’ President Erdogan on Twitter
A university student has been sentenced to house arrest for allegedly insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by retweeting a post in Twitter.
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Int’l organizations decry Turkish court’s verdicts for Zaman journalists, calling them ‘perversion of justice’
International organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee...
Vice News reporters acquitted in Turkey after 9-year terrorism trial
A Turkish court has acquitted two Vice News journalists of terrorism-related charges after a nine-year trial stemming from their reporting in Turkey’s restive southeast...
Spanish police detain another Turkish writer over Erdoğan regime’s ‘red notice’ to Interpol
Turkish writer Doğan Akhanlı was detained by Spanish police in Grenata over the reason that he was wanted by Turkey with "red notice" to...
Turkey blocks dozens of news reports on corruption and investigations
Turkey’s telecommunications authority has blocked dozens of articles on corruption as well as politically sensitive reporting on the independent Kısa Dalga news website.
According to...
Football fan sentenced to 11 months in jail for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
Fikret Yorgun, a staunch Bursapor fan, on Wednesday received a suspended jail sentence of eleven months for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in...
OSCE/ODIHR highlights anti-democratic pressures during referendum campaign
Limited Referendum Observation Mission of OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR LROM) has stated in its recent report that supporters of...
Novelist Aslı Erdoğan receives Erich Maria Remarque peace prize in Germany
Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, who was released after 132 days in prison due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily and recently was...
Turkish gov’t uses TRT as a weapon to spread its censorship to YouTube: report
After taking full control of traditional media, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan began silencing dissenting voices on YouTube through Turkey's public broadcaster TRT, who...
Turkish court sentences journalist Deniz Yücel to almost 3 years prison
A Turkish court on Thursday convicted a correspondent for Germany’s Die Welt newspaper of engaging in propaganda in favor of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...
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