Seized properties of 12 critical media outlets put up for sale in Turkey
Properties belonging to 12 critical media outlets, which the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup...
Imprisoned Turkish media designer: I’m calling you from a shrunken small world
Fevzi Yazıcı, a Turkish member of the US-based international Society for News Design (SND) who was imprisoned last year as part of a government...
Jailed journalist Alpay: Silivri better than Sağmalcılar, we can take a shower whenever we...
Şahin Alpay, a jailed veteran journalist and columnist of now-closed Zaman daily, has compared the conditions of infamous Sağmalcılar Prison in the wake of...
Turkish journalist Ufuk Şanlı in jail for his tweet about pro-gov’t businessman
A business journalist who made a career for himself in covering economy, trade and investment has been behind bars for 457 days for commenting...
European parlamenters show support for jailed journalists in Turkey
European Parliament members asked Turkish government under the autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to release jailed journalists in Turkey in a joint...
Two journalists get 5-month jail time for ‘defaming Turkish state’
An İstanbul court handed down 6-month prison sentence to the pro-Kurdish online news portal Özgürlükçü Demokrasi’s former editor-in-chief Ersin Çaksu and its managing editor...
Turkish government jails at least 10 activists, 3 more journalists
Turkish government has jailed at least 10 pro-Kurdish and leftist activists and 3 more journalists in Turkey.
Twelve people were reportedly detained by Turkish police...
Turkish gov’t detains journalist Zeynep Kuray over her social media posts
Turkish police forces raided the house of journalist Zeynep Kuray in Kadıköy district of İstanbul province Wednesday night. Following a search in her house,...
A media professional Hüseyin Belli faces lifetime jail in Turkey for severance payment
A media worker who worked for a critical Turkish national daily has been locked up behind bars for 266 days over farcical terror charges...
Oda TV editor-in-chief gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
Barış Pehlivan, editor-in-chief of the Oda TV news website, has been given a suspended sentence of 11 months, 20 days for “insulting” Turkish autocraticPresident...
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