X blocks access to at least 42 journalist, activist accounts in Turkey
Social media platform X has blocked access to at least 42 accounts belonging to Turkish journalists, activists and media organizations operated by journalists living...
Press freedom groups urge Turkey to halt growing suppression of journalists in 2025
A coalition of international press freedom organizations, led by the International Press Institute (IPI), is calling on Turkish authorities to halt what they describe...
Turkish media organizations under scrutiny over role in 2013 anti-gov’t protests
Turkish prosecutors have asked the country’s media watchdog to assist them in identifying media organizations whose coverage of anti-government protests in 2013 might have...
Turkish court’s arrest of Halk TV editor-in-chief ‘a political move’ to silence media: CPJ
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned a Turkish court’s order to arrest Halk TV Editor-in-Chief Suat Toktaş after the opposition-aligned network aired an interview...
Press groups condemn crackdown on independent media in Turkey, with 14 journalists arrested in...
Fourteen journalists have been arrested in Turkey since the start of the year, press freedom groups said Wednesday, condemning what they described as an...
Turkish court jails opposition journalist
A court in Turkey on Thursday ordered the arrest of a journalist from an opposition television channel accused of broadcasting a secretly recorded interview...
Turkish journalist under investigation for allegedly disseminating terrorist propaganda
Veteran Turkish journalist Şirin Payzın has been placed under investigation by prosecutors for allegedly “disseminating terrorist propaganda,” she announced Tuesday on the social media...
3 journalists detained for revealing phone call with court-appointed expert witness
Three journalists have been detained in Turkey after journalist Barış Pehlivan aired a phone call between himself and a court-appointed expert witness whom İstanbul...
Turkish woman arrested for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan in street interview
A Turkish woman who criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a street interview has been arrested on charges of insulting the president and...
Press freedom in Turkey declined further in 2024 amid censorship, arrests and intimidation: report
Press freedom in Turkey continued to face challenges in 2024 as authorities intensifying their crackdown on independent journalism through systematic censorship, detentions, arrests and...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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