Turkey investigates Kurdish politician for promoting his book on social media
Prosecutors in the eastern Turkish province of Kars have launched an investigation into Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak over a series of social media posts,...
İYİ Party member detained by Turkish police for tweet claiming Halkbank to be fined...
An İstanbul court has ruled for the pretrial detention of Kerim Yılmaz, a High Advisory Board member of the İYİ Party, over a tweet...
Swedish journalist charged in Turkey risks 12 years in prison, employer says
A Swedish journalist arrested in Turkey in March has been charged with insulting the president and alleged terrorism offenses, facing up to 12 years...
Turkey sends 79-year-old veteran journalist to prison
Prominent Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilcak has been sent to prison to serve a sentence handed down on conviction of libeling a public prosecutor, Turkish...
15 Kurdish journalists released from jail pending trial after lengthy detention
A Turkish court has ruled for the release pending trial of 15 Kurdish journalists who had been held in pretrial detention for 13 months,...
Turkish journalists charged for terror over comments on US-indicted sanction buster Zarrab
A Turkish public prosecutor who accused 29 journalists on terrorism charges cited articles and Twitter messages on US-indicted gold trader Reza Zarrab, who bribed...
Turkey still the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, says Pen International
Turkey is still the world’s number-one jailer of journalists, said Pen International in its 2019 case list, which monitored 212 cases of repression of writers...
Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code banned in Turkish prison due to emergency rule
US novelist Dan Brown’s best-selling thriller, The Da Vinci Code was banned in İstanbul’s Silivri prison under Turkey’s post-coup emergency measures, according to the main opposition...
Visually impaired journalist Arat detained and released again
Visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat, who is facing terror charges due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was detained again in...
Council of Europe rapporteur calls on Turkey, Azerbaijan to urgently stop attacks on journalists
Austrian lawmaker Stefan Schennach, general rapporteur on media freedom and the safety of journalists for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),...
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