Pro-gov’t Turkish satire magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry
Pro-government Turkish satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ultranationalist ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)...
H. Büşra Erdal, author, reporter and lawyer, faces 15 years in jail for her...
An author, lawyer and journalist who made a career and a name for herself from years of working as a court reporter who chased...
Jailed journalist Alpay: Those who remain silent, must know that we have been wronged
Dr. Şahin Alpay, one of the 280 journalists currently imprisoned in Turkey, has thanked to those politicians, local and foreign colleagues who have objected to...
Bizarre trial of veteran Turkish journalist Mehmet Özdemir who faces life time in jail
Award winning journalist who have worked his way up from being an intern reporter to a senior editor in Turkey’s one-time largest national daily...
Teacher who said ‘Don’t let children die’ will give birth in Turkish prison
A one year, three month prison sentence handed down to Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who called for an end to clashes between Kurdish militants...
Pro-gov’t Türkiye daily fires veteran Erdoğanist columnist over his ‘new coup’ analysis
Nuri Elibol, a veteran columnist and Ankara representative of pro-government Türkiye daily was fired from the paper following an article he wrote over a...
European regional meeting of ILO starts in İstanbul with labour unions’ massive boycott
The 10th European Regional Meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has started in İstanbul on Monday with an overwhelming boycott of labour unions...
Turkish opposition leader’s lawyer: Prosecutor asked me why I cancelled my cable subscription
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s lawyer, Celal Çelik, who was released on Friday after 14 days of detention over...
Buried alive: Veteran Turkish editor İbrahim Karayeğen spent over 6 months in solitary confinement
A night-shift editor at Zaman newspaper, one-time Turkey’s largest circulated newspaper before the government unlawful takeover and closure in 2016, has been subjected to...
Spain halts extradition of Turkish-Swedish writer Hamza Yalçın
The Spanish government on Friday decided not to extradite Hamza Yalçın, a Turkish-Swedish reporter and writer who was taken into custody in Barcelona over...
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