Turkish court rules to keep Zaman columnist Ali Ünal in jail
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
IJA marks World Press Freedom Day with plea to free jailed journalists, warning on...
The International Journalists Association (IJA), a Germany-based network of media workers living in exile, marked World Press Freedom Day on Saturday with a call...
Report: Turkish gov’t systematically violated 12 fundamental rights during emergency rule
Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has announced that Turkish government has systematically violated 12 fundamental human rights...
Journalist given suspended jail sentences for insulting Erdoğan, far-right leader
A Turkish court has handed down two suspended sentences of 11 months, 20 days each to Mehmet Emin Kurnaz, an editor at the BirGün...
Indictment against Cumhuriyet journalists finalized on 156th day of arrest
İstanbul prosecutors have finally prepared an indictment against Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November in 2017 on charges of supporting...
Turkish journalist Bünyamin Aldı faces over 22 years in jail over donation
A young journalist who is a video editor at a national TV station in Turkey has been behind bars for 315 days over a...
Turkish police beat and detain people commemorating victims of Suruç massacre
Turkish police beat and detained a group of people in İstanbul's Kadıkõy district on Tuesday during a commemoration of the 33 victims of an...
Turkish courts arrested 27 journalists in 2023: report
Journalists in Turkey made 563 court appearances in 2023, with the courts arresting 27 out of 72 journalists who were detained by law enforcement,...
21 re-detained journalists taken to police HQ in İstanbul
All 21 journalists who were arrested again early on Saturday, hours after being released pending trial on Friday, were taken to police headquarters after...
VPN demand in Turkey skyrockets after gov’t limits social media use following attack
Demand for VPN services in Turkey increased by 853 percent on Sunday, when the Turkish government imposed a restriction on social media platforms following...
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