Jailed media designer Yazıcı detained for slandering al-Qaeda-affiliated group
Fevzi Yazıcı, a leading media designer in Turkey, was detained on Dec. 8, 2017 over allegedly plotting against an al-Qaeda linked Turkish group called...
Turkish prosecutor demands aggravated life sentences for journalist Ilıcak and Altan brothers
Turkish prosecutor has demanded aggravated life imprisonment on Monday for prominent author and journalists Ahmet Altan, his academic brother Mehmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak...
Veteran Turkish Journalist Hasan Cemal: A case where universal principles of law forgotten
By Hasan Cemal (*)
İstanbul's Silivri Prison, December 8, 2017. It is 10:35.
The case of Zaman daily writers.
They come in single row again, the gendarmerie...
New York Times: Turkey no safe zone for foreign political dissidents
The murder of Syrian mother-daughter activists Halla and Orouba Barakat in İstanbul highlights a growing fear among foreign political dissidents, especially women, that they aren’t...
Turkey’s Erdoğan claims Western media smearing him as they did Atatürk
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday has claimed the Western media have been negatively portraying him as they did in the past...
Steudtner: Detained activists in Turkey face ‘unfair’ judicial system
Turkey is failing to adhere to normal judicial practices by keeping political prisoners held without indictment and by having their trials repeatedly postponed, human rights activist...
Journalists ordered to be kept in jail in Turkey’s largest press freedom case
In Turkey’s largest freedom of press case where prominent journalists and authors were tried on dubious charges, the court ruled to keep them in...
Jailed Turkish columnist Alkan: I wrote what I believe in, and I am honoured...
Prominent Turkish columnist and political scientist Ahmet Turan Alkan has said during his defence in the trial of the journalists, who used to work...
Press groups call on EU to be less deferential towards Turkey on rights violations
Several international press organization under the flagship of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) urged the European Union (EU) and its member states to use their...
Turkey’s top biographer, journalist Kalyoncu behind bars for 501 days over tweets
Cemal Kalyoncu, Turkey’s one of the leading biographers and journalist, has been behind bars since July 29, 2016 over social media postings that were...
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