Turkish court arrests 4 more journalists from pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi
A Turkish court on Wednesday ruled to arrest four journalists from the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper, which was seized by the Turkish government and...
Turkish court sentences jailed journalist Soncan to 7,5 years in prison on ‘terror’ charges
Journalist Emre Soncan, who is among dozens of journalists jailed in the aftermath of a controversial military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15,...
Jailed Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal: My scream for justice has faded away in a...
Mustafa Ünal (50), a jailed veteran journalist and former Ankara bureau chief for the shuttered Zaman daily, has urged the judges in his trial to...
Jailed journalist Ilıcak appears in Turkish court on espionage charges
Renowned journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 and given an aggravated...
Turkey overwhelmingly leads world in Twitter censorship
The Turkish government is continuing its efforts to censor Twitter, according to the site’s new transparency report, which shows that 466 of 513 total...
İHD report reveals 3,000 people tortured across Turkey in 2017
The Human Rights Association (İHD) has reported that at least 3,000 people were tortured by Turkish security officials across Turkey in 2017.
According to the İHD...
Turkish public bank financing Erdoğan-ally takeover of Doğan media
A Turkish state bank is to finance the takeover of the Doğan Media Group by the pro-government Demirören Group with the extension of a...
Turkish court jails all detained employees of pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper
A Turkish court has arrested and put in pretrial detention all detained executives and employees of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing...
Prosecutor seeks aggravated life sentences for prominent Turkish journalists over their articles
An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded aggravated life sentences for nine journalists in a trial of employees of the former Zaman daily, which was closed...
Turkish police detain 4 journalists of seized Özgürlükçü Demokrasi in house raids
Turkish police detained four Kurdish journalists during raids on Wednesday on the homes of employees of the Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper.
According to a report by...
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