Turkish government launches fight against 139,141 books
Turkish government's censorship efforts and its fight against education and culture have reached a new peak with the statement of Numan Kurtulmuş, Minister of...
Press union insists justice minister explain continued detention of journalist
DİSK Basın-İş, a labor union representing media workers in Turkey, has demanded an explanation from Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç for the continued pretrial detention...
3 more journalists arrested in Turkey
Three of six journalists who were detained in an operation on Dec. 25 were arrested by an İstanbul court, after 24 days under detention,...
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...
Turkish gov’t selling properties of 9 media outlets including Yeni Hayat, Meydan, Yarına Bakış...
Properties belonging to nine of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by...
Pro-gov’t columnist calls for arrest of Turkey’s main opposition leader and deputies
The staunchly pro-government and radical Islamist Yeni Akit daily columnist Mehtap Yılmaz on Monday called for the arrest of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s...
Top appeals court upholds prison sentence for Kurdish journalist convicted of terror-related charges
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence of almost two years for a journalist in southeastern Turkey who was convicted of...
Jailed Turkish journalist Altan awarded Germany’s Geschwister-Scholl Prize
Jailed Turkish journalist and author Ahmet Altan, 69, has been announced as the recipient of Germany’s prestigious Geschwister-Scholl Prize, German news outlets reported on...
Detention warrants issued for 38 TRT employees over alleged Gülen links
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 38 people working for the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on...
Journalist Yücel files lawsuit against Turkey for unjust imprisonment
Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel, who works for the German Die Welt newspaper and was jailed for about a year in Turkey on terror charges,...
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